anand balachandran pillai crsxanplgmailcom still seems like bad thing break backward compatibility however really provide usecase apart benjamin said teaching common usecase equate ranges code bad coding anyway hopefully well documented 30 release currently whats new page mention anything range type breaks backward compatibility news page 30 a4 say however range returns iterator rather list floats allowed xrange longer defined guess information added actually specify range returns iterator iterator new type different regarding education following example used illustrate things different l12345 l212345 iterl2 iterl2iterl false since range iterator type explain equate two range objects anymore thanks anand wed apr 9 2008 348 guido van rossum wrote tue apr 8 2008 249 pm benjamin peterson range one first functions introduced teaching python thats educators raised pascal loops guido van rossum home page httpwwwpythonorgguido _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000abpillai40gmailcom anand _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 165523 0530 python3000 equality range objects