Practice Behavior With Negative Steps (11.2.3) - More about range() - Data Structures and Algorithms in Python
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Behavior with negative steps

Practice - Behavior with negative steps

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What does range(5) produce?

💡 Hint: Remember it starts from 0.

Question 2 Easy

What is the output of range(3, 8)?

💡 Hint: It's from 3 to what minus one?

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Question 1

What does the range function produce with the input range(5, 15, 3)?

5
8
11
14
5
6
7
8
15
16
17

💡 Hint: Look for the pattern starting from 5 going to below 15 in steps of 3.

Question 2

True or False: range(10, 0) will produce an output.

True
False

💡 Hint: What happens if you don’t specify a negative step?

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Challenge Problems

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Challenge 1 Hard

Create a countdown list from 20 to 5 with steps of 2. What does it produce?

💡 Hint: Always remember to stop just above the lower bound.

Challenge 2 Hard

Explain why the input range(5, 15, -3) results in an empty list. What conditions lead to this?

💡 Hint: Think about how the range function interprets its arguments when steps are negative.

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