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 ]

Answer 2

start and stop are inclusive rather than one or the other (usually stop is excluded) and without imports, and using generators

def rangef(start, stop, step, fround=5):
    """
    Yields sequence of numbers from start (inclusive) to stop (inclusive)
    by step (increment) with rounding set to n digits.

    :param start: start of sequence
    :param stop: end of sequence
    :param step: int or float increment (e.g. 1 or 0.001)
    :param fround: float rounding, n decimal places
    :return:
    """
    try:
        i = 0
        while stop >= start and step > 0:
            if i==0:
                yield start
            elif start >= stop:
                yield stop
            elif start < stop:
                if start == 0:
                    yield 0
                if start != 0:
                    yield start
            i += 1
            start += step
            start = round(start, fround)
        else:
            pass
    except TypeError as e:
        yield "type-error({})".format(e)
    else:
        pass


# passing
print(list(rangef(-100.0,10.0,1)))
print(list(rangef(-100,0,0.5)))
print(list(rangef(-1,1,0.2)))
print(list(rangef(-1,1,0.1)))
print(list(rangef(-1,1,0.05)))
print(list(rangef(-1,1,0.02)))
print(list(rangef(-1,1,0.01)))
print(list(rangef(-1,1,0.005)))
# failing: type-error:
print(list(rangef("1","10","1")))
print(list(rangef(1,10,"1")))

Python 3.6.2 (v3.6.2:5fd33b5, Jul 8 2017, 04:57:36) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)]

Answer 3

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]

Answer 4

And if you do this often, you might want to save the generated list r

r=map(lambda x: x/10.0,range(0,10))
for i in r:
    print i

Answer 5

My answer is similar to others using map(), without need of NumPy, and without using lambda (though you could). To get a list of float values from 0.0 to t_max in steps of dt:

def xdt(n):
    return dt*float(n)
tlist  = map(xdt, range(int(t_max/dt)+1))

Answer 6

My solution:

def seq(start, stop, step=1, digit=0):
    x = float(start)
    v = []
    while x <= stop:
        v.append(round(x,digit))
        x += step
    return v