[Tutor] xrange

[Alan Gauld]

"elis aeris" <hunter92383 at gmail.com> wrote

> for x in xrange (20, 0):
>    print x
>
> this doesn't work because it goes from a big number to a small 
> number, which
> does nothing
> but what if I need the for loop to go from a big number to a small 
> number?

Add a 3rd step-value argument to range. (You don't need the xrange
on modern versions of Python BTW)

If you make the step negative it will count down:

>>> range(20,0,-4)
[20, 16, 12, 8, 4]
>>>

HTH,
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Alan Gauld
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