From 3db5e7be1cf61756e89c40efcc1e24f00f33425b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Peterson Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 03:13:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] range() doesn't return a list --- Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst index 214143b82b..016ccbbc6c 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ the next item assigned to it. Names in the target list are not deleted when the loop is finished, but if the sequence is empty, it will not have been assigned to at all by the loop. Hint: the built-in function :func:`range` returns an iterator of integers suitable to -emulate the effect of Pascal's ``for i := a to b do``; e.g., ``range(3)`` +emulate the effect of Pascal's ``for i := a to b do``; e.g., ``list(range(3))`` returns the list ``[0, 1, 2]``. .. note:: -- 2.50.0