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

Suprised no-one has yet mentioned the recommended solution in the Python 3 docs:

See also:

• The linspace recipe shows how to implement a lazy version of range that suitable for floating point applications.

Once defined, the recipe is easy to use and does not require numpy or any other external libraries, but functions like numpy.linspace(). Note that rather than a step argument, the third num argument specifies the number of desired values, for example:

print(linspace(0, 10, 5))
# linspace(0, 10, 5)
print(list(linspace(0, 10, 5)))
# [0.0, 2.5, 5.0, 7.5, 10]

I quote a modified version of the full Python 3 recipe from Andrew Barnert below:

import collections.abc
import numbers

class linspace(collections.abc.Sequence):
    """linspace(start, stop, num) -> linspace object

    Return a virtual sequence of num numbers from start to stop (inclusive).

    If you need a half-open range, use linspace(start, stop, num+1)[:-1].
    """
    def __init__(self, start, stop, num):
        if not isinstance(num, numbers.Integral) or num <= 1:
            raise ValueError('num must be an integer > 1')
        self.start, self.stop, self.num = start, stop, num
        self.step = (stop-start)/(num-1)
    def __len__(self):
        return self.num
    def __getitem__(self, i):
        if isinstance(i, slice):
            return [self[x] for x in range(*i.indices(len(self)))]
        if i < 0:
            i = self.num + i
        if i >= self.num:
            raise IndexError('linspace object index out of range')
        if i == self.num-1:
            return self.stop
        return self.start + i*self.step
    def __repr__(self):
        return '{}({}, {}, {})'.format(type(self).__name__,
                                       self.start, self.stop, self.num)
    def __eq__(self, other):
        if not isinstance(other, linspace):
            return False
        return ((self.start, self.stop, self.num) ==
                (other.start, other.stop, other.num))
    def __ne__(self, other):
        return not self==other
    def __hash__(self):
        return hash((type(self), self.start, self.stop, self.num))