[issue9213] range purports to implement the Sequence ABC, but is missing index and count methods

[Daniel Urban]

Daniel Urban <urban.dani+py at gmail.com> added the comment:

> Attached is a greatly revised patch, with two significant changes:
> - Adds support for !PyLong_CheckExact (using _PySequence_IterSearch)

Thanks, indeed, we should support that.

> Any strong feelings on whether range.index should support the start and
> stop arguments provided by list.index, tuple.index, and str.index, but
> not by collections.Sequence.index?

I don't think that this is very important.

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