[Tutor] Question about a python finction

[Alan Gauld]

On 12/05/18 06:40, peter wrote:
> range does not work the same for 2.7 and my 3.6.5. Seems they have 
> changed the nature of range. It is a built in listed along with lists 
> and tuples

You are correct in that it has changed slightly and now returns
a range object. but you can convert it to a list(or tuple) easily

> 
>>>> list(range(10))
> [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
> 
>  >>> tuple(range(10))
> (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)

Just as you have done here.

And if you don;t mneed the explicot list you can use it in a for loop
etc exactly as before:

for n in range(10):...

> ...range(10) will not work with python3.6.5

Yes it will, it just returns a slightly different value that
you must explicitly convert to a list if needed.


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