Python 2.x gotchas and landmines

Question

The purpose of my question is to strengthen my knowledge base with Python and get a better picture of it, which includes knowing its faults and surprises. To keep things sp

Answer 1

The values of range(end_val) are not only strictly smaller than end_val, but strictly smaller than int(end_val). For a float argument to range, this might be an unexpected result:

from future.builtins import range
list(range(2.89))
[0, 1]