On 05/21/2013 06:32 AM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 21May2013 17:56, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
| On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote:
| > - randrange() is like other python ranges: it does not include the end
value.
| > So your call picks a number from 0..58, not 0..59.
| > Say randrange(0,60). Think "start, length".
|
| Nitpick: It's not start, length; it's start, stop-before. If the start
| is 10 and the second argument is 20, you'll get numbers from 10 to 19.
| But your conclusion is still accurate :)
But it's still a useful thing to think when you're trying to reason
about ranges unless you're doing something unusual.
No, it's only happens to look like length when start is zero. So as a
mnemonic, it's highly misleading.
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