Index: Objects/rangeobject.c
===================================================================
--- Objects/rangeobject.c	(revision 62257)
+++ Objects/rangeobject.c	(working copy)
@@ -252,6 +252,34 @@
                                     r->start, r->stop, r->step);
 }
 
+static PyObject *
+range_richcompare(PyObject *v, PyObject *w, int op)
+{
+    if (!PyRange_Check(v)
+        || !PyRange_Check(w)
+        || (op != Py_EQ
+        && op != Py_NE)) {
+        Py_INCREF(Py_NotImplemented);
+        return Py_NotImplemented;
+    }
+    
+    rangeobject *us = (rangeobject*)v;
+    rangeobject *them = (rangeobject*)w;
+    
+    int is_equal = (
+        PyObject_IsTrue(PyObject_RichCompare(us->start, them->start, Py_EQ))
+        && PyObject_IsTrue(PyObject_RichCompare(us->stop, them->stop, Py_EQ))
+        && PyObject_IsTrue(PyObject_RichCompare(us->step, them->step, Py_EQ))
+    );
+    if ((is_equal && op == Py_EQ)
+        || (!is_equal && op == Py_NE)) {
+        Py_RETURN_TRUE;
+    }
+    else {
+        Py_RETURN_FALSE;
+    }
+}
+
 static PySequenceMethods range_as_sequence = {
     (lenfunc)range_length,	/* sq_length */
     0,			/* sq_concat */
@@ -296,7 +324,7 @@
 	range_doc,		/* tp_doc */
 	0,			/* tp_traverse */
 	0,			/* tp_clear */
-	0,			/* tp_richcompare */
+	range_richcompare, /* tp_richcompare */
 	0,			/* tp_weaklistoffset */
 	range_iter,		/* tp_iter */
 	0,			/* tp_iternext */
Index: Lib/test/test_builtin.py
===================================================================
--- Lib/test/test_builtin.py	(revision 62257)
+++ Lib/test/test_builtin.py	(working copy)
@@ -1594,6 +1594,10 @@
         #NEAL self.assertRaises(OverflowError, range, 0, 2*sys.maxsize)
 
         self.assertRaises(OverflowError, len, range(0, sys.maxsize**10))
+        
+        self.assertEquals(range(1234), range(1234))
+        self.assertEquals(range(4, 3, 2), range(4, 3, 2))
+        self.assertNotEquals(range(1, 15, 3), range(1, 20, 3))
 
     def test_input(self):
         self.write_testfile()