BUG: Fix NotImplementedError when comparing ArrowExtensionArray to range

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: harupy

pandas/core/arrays/arrow/array.py

@@ -905,7 +905,7 @@ def _cmp_method(self, other, op) -> ArrowExtensionArray:
         pc_func = ARROW_CMP_FUNCS[op.__name__]
         ltype = self._pa_array.type
 
-        if isinstance(other, (ExtensionArray, np.ndarray, list)):
+        if isinstance(other, (ExtensionArray, np.ndarray, list, range)):
             try:
                 boxed = self._box_pa(other)
             except pa.lib.ArrowInvalid:

pandas/core/ops/invalid.py

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 
 def invalid_comparison(
     left: ArrayLike,
-    right: ArrayLike | list | Scalar,
+    right: ArrayLike | list | range | Scalar,
     op: Callable[[Any, Any], bool],
 ) -> npt.NDArray[np.bool_]:
     """

pandas/tests/extension/test_arrow.py

@@ -3817,3 +3817,11 @@ def test_ufunc_retains_missing():
 
     expected = pd.Series([np.sin(0.1), pd.NA], dtype="float64[pyarrow]")
     tm.assert_series_equal(result, expected)
+
+
+def test_comparison_with_range():
+    # GH#63429
+    df = pd.DataFrame({"a": [0, 1], "b": [2, 3]})
+    result = df.columns == range(len(df.columns))
+    expected = np.array([False, False])
+    tm.assert_numpy_array_equal(result, expected)