The range () function in Python

The range () function built into Python is used to create a sequence of numbers starting at 0 by default, incrementing 1 (by default) and ending at a specified number. Put simply, the function takes an integer and returns a range object (iterable).

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The syntax of the range () function in Python

The range () function in Python has two types of syntax:

 range(stop)

 range(start, stop[, step])

The parameters of the range () function

The range () function has 3 parameters:

start : integer begins, the string will start with this parameter. The default value is 0.

stop : the integer ends, the string ends with this parameter.

step : integer specifies the distance between the numbers inside the string. The default value is 1.

Return value from range ()

1. With range (stop) syntax:

Returns a string starting from 0 to stop -1.

Returns an empty string if the stop value is 0 or less than 0.

2. With range type syntax (start, stop [, step]):

Without the step parameter, the default step will be 1: the return value is a string starting at start and ending at stop -1

If step equals 0, the exception exception ValueError will be raised.

If step , check if the parameters meet the constraint.

If yes, returns the string according to the formula, starting from start , the numbers separated by step , the last number of the string will be stop .

Otherwise returns an empty string.

Example 1: how does range () work?

 print(list(range(0))) # sử dụng range(stop) print(list(range(10))) # sử dụng range(start, stop) print(list(range(1, 10)))

When you run the program, the output will be:

 [] [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]

Example 2: Making an even number list between parameters passed by using range ()

 start = 2 stop = 14 step = 2 print(list(range(start, stop, step)))

When you run the program, the output will be:

 [2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12]

Example 3: range () works with step being a negative number

 start = 2 stop = -14 step = -2 print(list(range(start, stop, step))) print(list(range(start, 14, step)))

Return value:

 [2, 0, -2, -4, -6, -8, -10, -12] []