[Tutor] creating a range above & below a given number

[Alan Gauld]

"Gonzalo Garcia-Perate" <gonzillaaa at gmail.com> wrote

> Hello tutor, What's the simplest way of creating a list with a range
> of numbers above and below a given number?
> ...
> this works fine, but is there a simpler way of doing it? a one liner?  :)

I'd probably use a list comprehesion:

L = [n for n in range(lower, upper+!) if n < median-threshold or  n > 
medianthreshold]

eg:

>>> [n for n in range(5,21) if n < 10 or n > 16]
[5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 17, 18, 19, 20]
>>>

HTH,


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