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

This is my solution to get ranges with float steps.
Using this function it's not necessary to import numpy, nor install it.
I'm pretty sure that it could be improved and optimized. Feel free to do it and post it here.

from __future__ import division
from math import log

def xfrange(start, stop, step):

    old_start = start #backup this value

    digits = int(round(log(10000, 10)))+1 #get number of digits
    magnitude = 10**digits
    stop = int(magnitude * stop) #convert from 
    step = int(magnitude * step) #0.1 to 10 (e.g.)

    if start == 0:
        start = 10**(digits-1)
    else:
        start = 10**(digits)*start

    data = []   #create array

    #calc number of iterations
    end_loop = int((stop-start)//step)
    if old_start == 0:
        end_loop += 1

    acc = start

    for i in xrange(0, end_loop):
        data.append(acc/magnitude)
        acc += step

    return data

print xfrange(1, 2.1, 0.1)
print xfrange(0, 1.1, 0.1)
print xfrange(-1, 0.1, 0.1)

The output is:

[1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 2.0]
[0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 1.0, 1.1]
[-1.0, -0.9, -0.8, -0.7, -0.6, -0.5, -0.4, -0.3, -0.2, -0.1, 0.0]