bug in range function in python 3.2-3.3
Hi, I am Rahul. This is my first letter to you. I have been tinkering with 'Python' from days of ver2.2. Though I am not any professional programmer yet I like this Language & like to play with it. Recently I downloaded the latest ver3.2 on my machine which runs on "Linux" while I was writing a program. I noticed that one of my function was misbehaving as I ran the program again & again, discovered that the built in function "range()" was not doing what it was supposed to do. Forcing me to revert back to "Python ver2.7x". I tried both of your versions 3.3 on 'windows' & 3.2 on 'Mint Linux'. I noticed the same bug. I don't know any intricacies of python but things worked just right after falling back to older version. As this is a basic function I thought worth of reporting it. What it normally does is generate a 'list' within the bound range of mentioned arguments. While older versions(2.7x) had no problem & worked fine but newer versions(3.2-3.3) did not. This is normal output of the function, >>> range(5) >>> [0, 1, 2, 3, 4] but later version does it like this, >>> range(5) >>> [1,5] What is that? Even better, >>> range(1,5,1) >>> range(1,5) # that is the actual output of interpreter. I tried this on two different machines & in different OSes (Windows/ windows7/ mint Linux). Showing same results. I also tried in 'IDLE' & 'command line' but to no avail. May be I don't know if there are any additional libraries have been added & I need to import them. I would be very obliged if you people can point out the mistake & guide me, or if it is really a bug I would like it to be gone. This a really an easy to learn, yet powerful OOP based language. I like to see it grow & remain that way. Thankfully, Rahul rahulkay@hotmail.com
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