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>>> range(5)

[0, 1, 2, 3, 4]

>>> range(1, 5)

[1, 2, 3, 4]

>>> range(0, 6, 2)

[0, 2, 4]

>>> xrange(5)

xrange(5)

>>> list(xrange(5))

[0, 1, 2, 3, 4]

>>> xrange(1,5)

xrange(1, 5)

>>> list(xrange(1,5))

[1, 2, 3, 4]

>>> xrange(0, 6, 2)

xrange(0, 6, 2)

>>> list(xrange(0, 6, 2))

[0, 2, 4]

>>> a = range(0, 100)

>>> print type(a)

<type 'list'>

>>> print a

[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99]

>>> print a[0], a[1]

0 1

>>> a = xrange(0, 100)

>>> print type(a)

<type 'xrange'>

>>> print a

xrange(100)

>>> print a[0], a[1]

0 1

>>>