How to use a decimal range() step value?

Question

Is there a way to step between 0 and 1 by 0.1?

I thought I could do it like the following, but it failed:

for i in range(0, 1, 0.1):
    print i
         


        

Answer 1

Similar to R's seq function, this one returns a sequence in any order given the correct step value. The last value is equal to the stop value.

def seq(start, stop, step=1):
    n = int(round((stop - start)/float(step)))
    if n > 1:
        return([start + step*i for i in range(n+1)])
    elif n == 1:
        return([start])
    else:
        return([])

Results

seq(1, 5, 0.5)

[1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0]

seq(10, 0, -1)

[10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0]

seq(10, 0, -2)

[10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 0]

seq(1, 1)

[ 1 ]