On 9/20/07, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Forgot to add a few examples: >
Thanks. This is now trac #706: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/706 > sage: v = irange(0,5); v > [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5] > sage: v = irange(1,10); v > [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] > sage: v = irange(10,-1,-1); v > [10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, -1] > sage: v = irange(1,8, 1/2); v > [1, 3/2, 2, 5/2, 3, 7/2, 4, 9/2, 5, 11/2, 6, 13/2, 7, 15/2, 8] > sage: v = irange(1,2, 0.4); v > [1, 1.40000000000000, 1.80000000000000] > sage: v = irange(1, 2, 0.5); v > [1, 1.50000000000000, 2] > sage: v = irange(1, 2, -0.5); v > [] > sage: v = irange(2, -2, -0.5); v > [2, 1.50000000000000, 1.00000000000000, 0.500000000000000, 0.000000000000000, > -0.500000000000000, -1.00000000000000, -1.50000000000000, -2] > sage: v = irange(10,1); v > [] > sage: v = irange(10,10); v > [10] > sage: v = irange(10); v > Traceback (most recent call last): > ... > TypeError: irange() takes at least 2 arguments (1 given) > sage: v = irange(0.5, 2.5, 0.5); v > [0.500000000000000, 1.00000000000000, 1.50000000000000, 2.00000000000000, > 2.50000000000000] > sage: [n^2 for n in irange(-1, 10)] > [1, 0, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100] > > And this one from the calculus thread! > > -- I think that the Python convention of not including the upper bound > >> > in a sum is a real problem. > >> > > >> > sage: sum(i for i in range(1,10)) > >> > 45 > >> > > >> > I understand this is a fundamental convention in Python, and that it is > >> > very > >> > natural for people used to malloc(), but I worry that this will be a > >> > constant > >> > headache for students (and professors!). > > > sage: sum(i for i in irange(1, 10)) > 55 > > Jaap > > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
