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Title: incorrect description of range function
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Status: closed Resolution: fixed
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Assigned To: georg.brandl Nosy List: georg.brandl, georg.brandl, jgleeson
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Created on 2005-08-02 15:01 by jgleeson, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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msg25955 - (view) Author: John Gleeson (jgleeson) Date: 2005-08-02 15:01 
The description of the behavior of the range function

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/built-in-funcs.html#l2h-56

for negative values of step appears to be incorrect:

"if step is negative, the last element is the largest start + i * step 
greater than stop."

This implies that the last element is 'start'.  I think it should say 
'smallest' instead of 'largest'.
msg25956 - (view) Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) * (Python committer) Date: 2005-08-03 07:18 
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Correct. Committed as Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex r1.186, r1.175.2.6.
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