Christian Gollwitzer wrote: > Am 15.09.14 04:40, schrieb Seymore4Head: >> nums=range(1,11) >> print (nums) > >> I don't understand why the command nums=range(1,11) doesn't work. >> I would think that print(nums) should be 1,2,3 ect. >> Instead it prints range(1,11) > > It does work, but in a different way than you might think. range() does > not return a list of numbers, but rather a generator - that is an object > which produces the values one after another. But you can transform it > into a list: > > print(list(nums)) > > should give you what you want. > > Christian
I'd call range() an iterable. A generator is a specific kind of iterator. The difference between iterable and iterator is that the latter cannot be restarted: >>> def f(): ... yield 1 ... yield 2 ... >>> g = f() >>> list(g) [1, 2] >>> list(g) [] # empty --> g is an iterator >>> r = range(1, 3) >>> list(r) [1, 2] >>> list(r) [1, 2] # same as before --> r is an iterable -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
