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-rw-r--r--Lib/_abcoll.py1
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_collections.py3
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS2
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/_abcoll.py b/Lib/_abcoll.py
index 36aca95..942a72c 100644
--- a/Lib/_abcoll.py
+++ b/Lib/_abcoll.py
@@ -519,6 +519,7 @@ class Sequence(Sized, Iterable, Container):
Sequence.register(tuple)
Sequence.register(basestring)
Sequence.register(buffer)
+Sequence.register(xrange)
class MutableSequence(Sequence):
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_collections.py b/Lib/test/test_collections.py
index e11d999..fe96117 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_collections.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_collections.py
@@ -393,6 +393,9 @@ class TestCollectionABCs(ABCTestCase):
self.failUnless(isinstance(sample(), Sequence))
self.failUnless(issubclass(sample, Sequence))
self.failUnless(issubclass(basestring, Sequence))
+ self.failUnless(isinstance(range(10), Sequence))
+ self.failUnless(issubclass(xrange, Sequence))
+ self.failUnless(issubclass(str, Sequence))
self.validate_abstract_methods(Sequence, '__contains__', '__iter__', '__len__',
'__getitem__')
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index c71c678..efa19a2 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ What's New in Python 2.6.2
Core and Builtins
-----------------
+- xrange() is now registered as a Sequence.
+
- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
used when using str.format() with str, unicode, long, int, and
float arguments.