On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 06:19:40AM -0700, Yingjie Lan wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to test if two range objects contain the same sequence of > integers by the following algorithm in Python 3.2? > > 1. standardize the ending bound by letting it be the first excluded integer > for the given step size. > 2. compare the standardized starting bound, ending bound and step size: two > ranges equal if and only if this triplet is the same. > > If that's correct, it would be good to have equality comparison on two > ranges. > > Further, it might also be good to have sub-sequence test on ranges without > enumerating it. >
There's already a discussion about this on python-ideas. But somebody please tell me, why would you ever need to compare ranges? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
