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| author | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2015-04-22 13:16:07 (GMT) |
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| committer | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2015-04-22 13:16:07 (GMT) |
| commit | ac22c6b923d12e2b9069324c82a95d2353d0cd28 (patch) | |
| tree | 0959e4fd59d4d02ff6e8d76a1d760629685c839a /Objects | |
| parent | 3af7a38c616869b1d195add43b43e8af118e6a31 (diff) | |
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improved range docstring (closes #22785)
Patch by Ned Batchelder.
Diffstat (limited to 'Objects')
| -rw-r--r-- | Objects/rangeobject.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Objects/rangeobject.c b/Objects/rangeobject.c index 7e6c733..ca66a45 100644 --- a/Objects/rangeobject.c +++ b/Objects/rangeobject.c @@ -139,7 +139,11 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(range_doc, "range(stop) -> range object\n\ range(start, stop[, step]) -> range object\n\ \n\ -Return a sequence of numbers from start to stop by step."); +Return an object that produces a sequence of integers from start (inclusive)\n\ +to stop (exclusive) by step. range(i, j) produces i, i+1, i+2, ..., j-1.\n\ +start defaults to 0, and stop is omitted! range(4) produces 0, 1, 2, 3.\n\ +These are exactly the valid indices for a list of 4 elements.\n\ +When step is given, it specifies the increment (or decrement)."); static void range_dealloc(rangeobject *r) |