range Failure?

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 04:57:56PM -0500, Colin J. Williams wrote:
> It would seem that the first execution below should deliver the same
> result as the second.

   No, it is not :)

> >>> range(5, 2)
> []
> >>> range(0, 5, 2)
> [0, 2, 4]
> 
> The help has:
>      range([start,] stop[, step])

range(5, 2): start = 5, stop = 2, step = 1, result => []

Oleg.
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