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

I know I'm late to the party here, but here's a trivial generator solution that's working in 3.6:

def floatRange(*args):
    start, step = 0, 1
    if len(args) == 1:
        stop = args[0]
    elif len(args) == 2:
        start, stop = args[0], args[1]
    elif len(args) == 3:
        start, stop, step = args[0], args[1], args[2]
    else:
        raise TypeError("floatRange accepts 1, 2, or 3 arguments. ({0} given)".format(len(args)))
    for num in start, step, stop:
        if not isinstance(num, (int, float)):
            raise TypeError("floatRange only accepts float and integer arguments. ({0} : {1} given)".format(type(num), str(num)))
    for x in range(int((stop-start)/step)):
        yield start + (x * step)
    return

then you can call it just like the original range()... there's no error handling, but let me know if there is an error that can be reasonably caught, and I'll update. or you can update it. this is StackOverflow.