[Tutor] list semantics

[Joel Goldstick]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Jim Mooney <cybervigilante at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why does the first range convert to a list, but not the second?
>
>>>> p = list(range(1,20)), (range(40,59))
>>>> p
> ([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19],
>  range(40, 59))
>
Assuming you are using python 3.x range is a generator, so it only
produces values if you iterate over it
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