[Tutor] range() in 2.1

[dman]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:11:54PM +0200, Charlie Clark wrote:
| >the values 1..9 whereas in all the earlier pythons 
| >it would return 0..9
| >
| >Have the authors got it wrong or did range() change 
| >behaviour in v2.1 - I find that hard to believe! 
| >OTOH the examples in the article look like a cut n paste 
| >from a terminal session at the >>> prompt (including 
| >copyright message etc)
|
| If that's the case let me try ;-)
| 
| Python 2.1 (#2, Apr 26 2001, 21:54:18)
| [GCC 2.9-beos-991026] on beos5

...

| mm, looks pretty the same as ever to me. I would wonder a lot if it had 
| changed, that surely break a lot of things!!!

Same here with

Python 2.1 (#1, Apr 17 2001, 09:45:01)
[GCC 2.95.3-2 (cygwin special)] on cygwin_nt-4.01

and

Python 2.1 (#1, Jul 27 2001, 15:48:55)
[GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release)] on sunos5

I think that article must be rather buggy :-).

-D