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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/functions.rst | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst | 6 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index 886cb82..6944e1d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -1077,6 +1077,13 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. >>> r[-1] 18 + Testing range objects for equality with ``==`` and ``!=`` compares + them as sequences. That is, two range objects are considered equal if + they represent the same sequence of values. (Note that two range + objects that compare equal might have different :attr:`start`, + :attr:`stop` and :attr:`step` attributes, for example ``range(0) == + range(2, 1, 3)`` or ``range(0, 3, 2) == range(0, 4, 2)``.) + Ranges containing absolute values larger than :data:`sys.maxsize` are permitted but some features (such as :func:`len`) will raise :exc:`OverflowError`. @@ -1086,6 +1093,11 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. Test integers for membership in constant time instead of iterating through all items. + .. versionchanged:: 3.3 + Define '==' and '!=' to compare range objects based on the + sequence of values they define (instead of comparing based on + object identity). + .. function:: repr(object) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst index d08ee62..95a5583 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst @@ -186,6 +186,12 @@ and :func:`unicodedata.lookup()` resolves named sequences too. (Contributed by Ezio Melotti in :issue:`12753`) +Equality comparisons on :func:`range` objects now return a result reflecting +the equality of the underlying sequences generated by those range objects. + +(:issue:`13021`) + + New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules ===================================== |