On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 5:16 AM Cecil Westerhof <ce...@decebal.nl> wrote: > > Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> writes: > > > Python 3.7.3 (default, Apr 3 2019, 05:39:12) > > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > > >>> a = range(10) > > >>> b = reversed(a) > > >>> sum(a) == sum(b) > > True > > >>> sum(b) == sum(a) > > False > > Why does this happen? > > By the way, when you change the last statement to: > sum(a) == sum(b) > > you also get False.
>>> sum(range(10)) == sum(reversed(range(10))) True If you actually want a reversed range, use slice notation instead of the reversed() function, which is more parallel to iter(). >>> a = range(10) >>> b = a[::-1] >>> sum(a) == sum(b) True >>> sum(b) == sum(a) True Now you actually have a range that runs the other direction, instead of an iterator that runs through the range backwards. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
