range(start,stop)

[Moshe Zadka]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Stephane BAUSSON wrote:

> Hello
> 
> Just a question for a Python expert ...
> What the interest for the range function to stop at stop-1 and not at
> stop ?
> For me it does not feel natural to write ....

Well, in the absence of step argument, the invariant:

in range(start, stop) there are stop-start elements 

is very important.

E.g., 

range(0, n) is a list with n elements, so

for i in range(0, n): # equivalent to range(n)
	print "hello"

will print "hello" exactly n times.
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