[Tutor] Inverse range

Senthil_OR at Dell.com Senthil_OR at Dell.com
Wed Sep 6 19:51:59 CEST 2006


 
>> I am playing with Python. Playing as in learning.
>> Is it possible to reverse a range sequence? If, for instance, I
>> call:
>>
>> for f in range( 1,5 ):
>> print f
>>
>> Is it possible to reverse it? As in:
>> 4
>> 3
>> 2
>> 1

>Yes, there is a normally unused third parameter to range used to
control the step size. It can bew negative so:
>range(4,0,-1)

And then there is also this reversed() call:
 
>>> for f in reversed(range(1,5)):
	print f
4
3
2
1
>>> 


Thanks,
Senthil


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