range(start,stop)

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 11-Feb-00 Moshe Zadka wrote:
 >  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.

This behavour of range doesn't bother me (any more), but your example
isn't really that good. It would be just as readable and logical to 
let range stop at stop as the original poster wanted, i.e. range(1,n)
could be a list of n elements and 

for i in range(1, n):
    print "hello"

would do.

/Mikael

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