From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:25:32 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Backport 69934:  Register xrange() as a Sequence.
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.2c1~139
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9293eb965a2f70a3af849791401f8ec3fc23662b;p=python

Backport 69934:  Register xrange() as a Sequence.
---

diff --git a/Lib/_abcoll.py b/Lib/_abcoll.py
index 36aca958c7..942a72c0ce 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 e11d999a51..fe96117ffd 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 c71c6786cd..efa19a20a5 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.