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calpaterson
on Oct 23, 2013
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Why Python uses 0-based indexing. It's because of ...
I frequently have off-by-ones with range. len(range(1, 100)) == 99
aidos
on Oct 24, 2013
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Simplify it:
len(range(100)) == 100
Though - I've written a lot of python code and I never use range. The beauty of python is that all collections are iterable so you seldom need to specify ranges.
anonymoushn
on Oct 23, 2013
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Yes, it's 100-1. len(range(25,100)) == 75 == 100-25
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