diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index def8f2b963a..b75a925f729 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Highlighted new features:
 
 New modules:
 
-* cloud:ec2_eip -- manage AWS elastic IP's
+* cloud:ec2_eip -- manage AWS elastic IPs
 * cloud:rax_clb -- manage Rackspace cloud load balancers
 * system: firewalld -- manage the firewalld configuration
 * system: host -- manage `/etc/hosts` file entries
@@ -28,9 +28,11 @@ Misc changes:
 * Added `ansible_env` to the list of facts returned by the setup module.
 * Added `state=touch` to the file module, which functions similarly to the command-line version of `touch`.
 * Added a -vvvv level, which will show SSH client debugging information in the event of a failure.
-* Includes now support the more standard syntax, similar to that of role includes and dependencies. It is no longer necessary to specify a special "vas" field for the variables passed to the include.
+* Includes now support the more standard syntax, similar to that of role includes and dependencies. It is no longer necessary to specify a special "vars" field for the variables passed to the include.
 * Changed the `user:` parameter on plays to `remote_user:` to prevent confusion with the module of the same name.  Still backwards compatible on play parameters.
 * Added parameter to allow the fetch module to skip the md5 validation step ('validate_md5=false'). This is usefull when fetching files that are actively being written to, such as live log files.
+* Inventory hosts are used in the order they appear in the inventory.
+* in hosts: foo[2-5] type syntax, the iterators now are zero indexed and the last index is non-inclusive, to match Python standards.
 
 1.3 "Top of the World" - September 13th, 2013
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py
index 16d11246ffa..e33334380a6 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@
 import fnmatch
 import os
 import re
-
 import subprocess
+
 import ansible.constants as C
 from ansible.inventory.ini import InventoryParser
 from ansible.inventory.script import InventoryScript
@@ -132,7 +132,11 @@ class Inventory(object):
         # exclude hosts not in a subset, if defined
         if self._subset:
             subset = self._get_hosts(self._subset)
-            hosts.intersection_update(subset)
+            new_hosts = []
+            for h in hosts:
+                if h in subset and h not in new_hosts:
+                    new_hosts.append(h)
+            hosts = new_hosts
 
         # exclude hosts mentioned in any restriction (ex: failed hosts)
         if self._restriction is not None:
@@ -140,7 +144,7 @@ class Inventory(object):
         if self._also_restriction is not None:
             hosts = [ h for h in hosts if h.name in self._also_restriction ]
 
-        return sorted(hosts, key=lambda x: x.name)
+        return hosts
 
     def _get_hosts(self, patterns):
         """
@@ -169,17 +173,19 @@ class Inventory(object):
         # first, then the &s, then the !s.
         patterns = pattern_regular + pattern_intersection + pattern_exclude
 
-        hosts = set()
+        hosts = []
+
         for p in patterns:
+            that = self.__get_hosts(p)
             if p.startswith("!"):
-                # Discard excluded hosts
-                hosts.difference_update(self.__get_hosts(p))
+                hosts = [ h for h in hosts if h not in that ]
             elif p.startswith("&"):
-                # Only leave the intersected hosts
-                hosts.intersection_update(self.__get_hosts(p))
+                hosts = [ h for h in hosts if h in that ]
             else:
-                # Get all hosts from both patterns
-                hosts.update(self.__get_hosts(p))
+                for h in that:
+                    if h not in hosts:
+                        hosts.append(h)
+
         return hosts
 
     def __get_hosts(self, pattern):
@@ -190,9 +196,7 @@ class Inventory(object):
 
         (name, enumeration_details) = self._enumeration_info(pattern)
         hpat = self._hosts_in_unenumerated_pattern(name)
-        hpat = sorted(hpat, key=lambda x: x.name)
-
-        return set(self._apply_ranges(pattern, hpat))
+        return self._apply_ranges(pattern, hpat)
 
     def _enumeration_info(self, pattern):
         """
@@ -205,9 +209,18 @@ class Inventory(object):
             return (pattern, None)
         (first, rest) = pattern.split("[")
         rest = rest.replace("]","")
+        try:
+            # support selectors like webservers[0]
+            x = int(rest)
+            return (first, (x,x)) 
+        except:
+            pass
         if "-" in rest:
             (left, right) = rest.split("-",1)
             return (first, (left, right))
+        elif ":" in rest:
+            (left, right) = rest.split(":",1)
+            return (first, (left, right))
         else:
             return (first, (rest, rest))
 
@@ -222,30 +235,34 @@ class Inventory(object):
             return hosts
 
         (left, right) = limits
-        enumerated = enumerate(hosts)
+
         if left == '':
             left = 0
         if right == '':
             right = 0
         left=int(left)
         right=int(right)
-        enumerated = [ h for (i,h) in enumerated if i>=left and i<=right ]
-        return enumerated
+        if left != right:
+            return hosts[left:right]
+        else:
+            return [ hosts[left] ]
 
     # TODO: cache this logic so if called a second time the result is not recalculated
     def _hosts_in_unenumerated_pattern(self, pattern):
         """ Get all host names matching the pattern """
 
-        hosts = {}
+        hosts = []
         # ignore any negative checks here, this is handled elsewhere
         pattern = pattern.replace("!","").replace("&", "")
 
+        results = []
         groups = self.get_groups()
         for group in groups:
             for host in group.get_hosts():
                 if pattern == 'all' or self._match(group.name, pattern) or self._match(host.name, pattern):
-                    hosts[host.name] = host
-        return sorted(hosts.values(), key=lambda x: x.name)
+                    if host not in results:
+                        results.append(host)
+        return results
 
     def groups_for_host(self, host):
         results = []
diff --git a/lib/ansible/inventory/group.py b/lib/ansible/inventory/group.py
index 61ef1342bd2..cafb76e6002 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/inventory/group.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/inventory/group.py
@@ -53,11 +53,16 @@ class Group(object):
 
     def get_hosts(self):
 
-        hosts = set()
+        hosts = []
         for kid in self.child_groups:
-            hosts.update(kid.get_hosts())
-        hosts.update(self.hosts)
-        return list(hosts)
+            kid_hosts = kid.get_hosts()
+            for kk in kid_hosts:
+               if kk not in hosts:
+                   hosts.append(kk)
+        for mine in self.hosts:
+            if mine not in hosts:
+                hosts.append(mine)
+        return hosts
 
     def get_variables(self):
         return self.vars.copy()
diff --git a/test/TestInventory.py b/test/TestInventory.py
index 8194ce3e4e6..8cc0c67c2a7 100644
--- a/test/TestInventory.py
+++ b/test/TestInventory.py
@@ -126,15 +126,11 @@ class TestInventory(unittest.TestCase):
         inventory.restrict_to(restricted_hosts)
         hosts = inventory.list_hosts("norse:greek")
 
-        print "Hosts=%s" % hosts
-        print "Restricted=%s" % restricted_hosts
         assert sorted(hosts) == sorted(restricted_hosts)
 
         inventory.lift_restriction()
         hosts = inventory.list_hosts("norse:greek")
 
-        print hosts
-        print expected_hosts
         assert sorted(hosts) == sorted(expected_hosts)
 
     def test_simple_string_ipv4(self):
@@ -171,7 +167,6 @@ class TestInventory(unittest.TestCase):
         inventory = self.simple_inventory()
         vars = inventory.get_variables('thor')
 
-        print vars
         assert vars == {'group_names': ['norse'],
                         'inventory_hostname': 'thor',
                         'inventory_hostname_short': 'thor'}
@@ -180,12 +175,10 @@ class TestInventory(unittest.TestCase):
         inventory = self.simple_inventory()
         vars = inventory.get_variables('hera')
 
-        print vars
         expected = { 'ansible_ssh_port': 3000,
                      'group_names': ['greek'],
                      'inventory_hostname': 'hera',
                      'inventory_hostname_short': 'hera' }
-        print expected
         assert vars == expected
 
     def test_large_range(self):
@@ -257,21 +250,19 @@ class TestInventory(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_complex_enumeration(self):
 
 
-        expected1 = ['rtp_a', 'rtp_b']
-        expected2 = ['rtp_c', 'tri_a']
-        expected3 = ['rtp_b', 'rtp_c', 'tri_a', 'tri_b', 'tri_c']
-        expected4 = ['orlando', 'rtp_c', 'tri_a']
+        expected1 = ['rtp_b']
+        expected2 = ['rtp_a', 'rtp_b']
+        expected3 = ['rtp_a', 'rtp_b', 'rtp_c', 'tri_a', 'tri_b', 'tri_c']
+        expected4 = ['rtp_b', 'orlando' ]
 
         inventory = self.complex_inventory()
-        print "ALL NC=%s" % inventory.list_hosts("nc")
-        # use "-1" instead of 0-1 to test the syntax, on purpose
-        hosts = inventory.list_hosts("nc[-1]")
+        hosts = inventory.list_hosts("nc[1]")
         self.compare(hosts, expected1, sort=False)
-        hosts = inventory.list_hosts("nc[2-3]")
+        hosts = inventory.list_hosts("nc[0-2]")
         self.compare(hosts, expected2, sort=False)
-        hosts = inventory.list_hosts("nc[1-99999]")
+        hosts = inventory.list_hosts("nc[0-99999]")
         self.compare(hosts, expected3, sort=False)
-        hosts = inventory.list_hosts("nc[2-3]:florida[1-2]")
+        hosts = inventory.list_hosts("nc[1-2]:florida[0-1]")
         self.compare(hosts, expected4, sort=False)
 
     def test_complex_intersect(self):