How can you produce the following list with range()
in Python?
[9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0]
For those who are interested in the "efficiency" of the options collected so far...
Jaime RGP's answer led me to restart my computer after timing the somewhat "challenging" solution of Jason literally following my own suggestion (via comment). To spare the curious of you the downtime, I present here my results (worst-first):
Jason's answer (maybe just an excursion into the power of list comprehension):
$ python -m timeit "[9-i for i in range(10)]"
1000000 loops, best of 3: 1.54 usec per loop
martineau's answer (readable if you are familiar with the extended slices syntax):
$ python -m timeit "range(10)[::-1]"
1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.743 usec per loop
Michał Šrajer's answer (the accepted one, very readable):
$ python -m timeit "reversed(range(10))"
1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.538 usec per loop
bene's answer (the very first, but very sketchy at that time):
$ python -m timeit "range(9,-1,-1)"
1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.401 usec per loop
The last option is easy to remember using the range(n-1,-1,-1)
notation by Val Neekman.