R. David Murray added the comment:
Nope. If you want to count backward, use a negative step. Not doing anything
if end is lower than start allows code to take advantage of "don't care" edge
cases, just like 'abc'[4:] returning the empty string does. Range is often
used in 'for' loops, so h
New submission from Asa Dawson :
range has an odd behavior in which it assumes (regardless of start/end) that it
should be counting up. Attempting something such as:
for i in range(10,0):
print i
This loop simply runs through without doing anything, because start is larger
than end.
I'm
