[Python-3000] Using range()

[Guido van Rossum]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems to me that there are two reasonable behaviours
> for range(a, b) when b is less than a:  return an 'empty' range,
> as in the example above, or raise a ValueError;

Don't even think about suggesting to change this. It matches the
behavior of slices:

>>> a = 'abc'
>>> a[2:1]
''
>>>

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