From 29e383754e4a96b46d1bd9f72a49694cdb993850 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 20:16:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Remove unnecessary test.  (Thanks Skip)

---
 Lib/sre_compile.py | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/sre_compile.py b/Lib/sre_compile.py
index 5d42b2b096f..b5815548a50 100644
--- a/Lib/sre_compile.py
+++ b/Lib/sre_compile.py
@@ -24,12 +24,6 @@ else:
 def _identityfunction(x):
     return x
 
-# use xrange if available
-try:
-    xrange
-except NameError:
-    xrange = range
-
 def _compile(code, pattern, flags):
     # internal: compile a (sub)pattern
     emit = code.append