diff --git a/mesonbuild/interpreter/interpreter.py b/mesonbuild/interpreter/interpreter.py
index f0b650b5e..9a89b0c2a 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/interpreter/interpreter.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/interpreter/interpreter.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ from ..interpreterbase import noPosargs, noKwargs, permittedKwargs, noArgsFlatte
 from ..interpreterbase import InterpreterException, InvalidArguments, InvalidCode, SubdirDoneRequest
 from ..interpreterbase import Disabler, disablerIfNotFound
 from ..interpreterbase import FeatureNew, FeatureDeprecated, FeatureNewKwargs, FeatureDeprecatedKwargs
-from ..interpreterbase import ObjectHolder, RangeHolder
+from ..interpreterbase import ObjectHolder
 from ..interpreterbase.baseobjects import TYPE_nkwargs, TYPE_nvar, TYPE_var, TYPE_kwargs
 from ..modules import ExtensionModule, ModuleObject, MutableModuleObject, NewExtensionModule, NotFoundExtensionModule
 from ..cmake import CMakeInterpreter
@@ -2761,7 +2761,7 @@ This will become a hard error in the future.''', location=self.current_node)
     @noKwargs
     @FeatureNew('range', '0.58.0')
     @typed_pos_args('range', int, optargs=[int, int])
-    def func_range(self, node, args: T.Tuple[int, T.Optional[int], T.Optional[int]], kwargs: T.Dict[str, T.Any]) -> RangeHolder:
+    def func_range(self, node, args: T.Tuple[int, T.Optional[int], T.Optional[int]], kwargs: T.Dict[str, T.Any]) -> P_OBJ.RangeHolder:
         start, stop, step = args
         # Just like Python's range, we allow range(stop), range(start, stop), or
         # range(start, stop, step)
@@ -2777,4 +2777,4 @@ This will become a hard error in the future.''', location=self.current_node)
             raise InterpreterException('stop cannot be less than start')
         if step < 1:
             raise InterpreterException('step must be >=1')
-        return RangeHolder(start, stop, step, subproject=self.subproject)
+        return P_OBJ.RangeHolder(start, stop, step, subproject=self.subproject)
diff --git a/mesonbuild/interpreter/primitives/__init__.py b/mesonbuild/interpreter/primitives/__init__.py
index d876f5605..b4fe621ba 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/interpreter/primitives/__init__.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/interpreter/primitives/__init__.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ __all__ = [
     'BooleanHolder',
     'DictHolder',
     'IntegerHolder',
+    'RangeHolder',
     'StringHolder',
     'MesonVersionString',
     'MesonVersionStringHolder',
@@ -15,4 +16,5 @@ from .array import ArrayHolder
 from .boolean import BooleanHolder
 from .dict import DictHolder
 from .integer import IntegerHolder
+from .range import RangeHolder
 from .string import StringHolder, MesonVersionString, MesonVersionStringHolder
diff --git a/mesonbuild/interpreter/primitives/range.py b/mesonbuild/interpreter/primitives/range.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9054278b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mesonbuild/interpreter/primitives/range.py
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# Copyright 2021 The Meson development team
+# SPDX-license-identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+import typing as T
+
+from ...interpreterbase import (
+    MesonInterpreterObject,
+    IterableObject,
+    MesonOperator,
+    InvalidArguments,
+)
+
+class RangeHolder(MesonInterpreterObject, IterableObject):
+    def __init__(self, start: int, stop: int, step: int, *, subproject: str) -> None:
+        super().__init__(subproject=subproject)
+        self.range = range(start, stop, step)
+        self.operators.update({
+            MesonOperator.INDEX: self.op_index,
+        })
+
+    def op_index(self, other: int) -> int:
+        try:
+            return self.range[other]
+        except:
+            raise InvalidArguments(f'Index {other} out of bounds of range.')
+
+    def iter_tuple_size(self) -> None:
+        return None
+
+    def iter_self(self) -> T.Iterator[int]:
+        return iter(self.range)
+
+    def size(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.range)
diff --git a/mesonbuild/interpreterbase/__init__.py b/mesonbuild/interpreterbase/__init__.py
index 14462a27d..7c4b1db3b 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/interpreterbase/__init__.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/interpreterbase/__init__.py
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ __all__ = [
     'MesonInterpreterObject',
     'ObjectHolder',
     'IterableObject',
-    'RangeHolder',
     'MutableInterpreterObject',
 
     'MesonOperator',
@@ -78,7 +77,6 @@ from .baseobjects import (
     MesonInterpreterObject,
     ObjectHolder,
     IterableObject,
-    RangeHolder,
     MutableInterpreterObject,
 
     TV_fw_var,
diff --git a/mesonbuild/interpreterbase/baseobjects.py b/mesonbuild/interpreterbase/baseobjects.py
index 3c7085b8a..7e98b48c7 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/interpreterbase/baseobjects.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/interpreterbase/baseobjects.py
@@ -176,26 +176,3 @@ class IterableObject(metaclass=ABCMeta):
 
     def size(self) -> int:
         raise MesonBugException(f'size not implemented for {self.__class__.__name__}')
-
-class RangeHolder(MesonInterpreterObject, IterableObject):
-    def __init__(self, start: int, stop: int, step: int, *, subproject: str) -> None:
-        super().__init__(subproject=subproject)
-        self.range = range(start, stop, step)
-        self.operators.update({
-            MesonOperator.INDEX: self.op_index,
-        })
-
-    def op_index(self, other: int) -> int:
-        try:
-            return self.range[other]
-        except:
-            raise InvalidArguments(f'Index {other} out of bounds of range.')
-
-    def iter_tuple_size(self) -> None:
-        return None
-
-    def iter_self(self) -> T.Iterator[int]:
-        return iter(self.range)
-
-    def size(self) -> int:
-        return len(self.range)