Why does range(start, end) not include end?

Question

>>> range(1,11)

gives you

[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]

Why not 1-11?

Did they just decide to do it lik

Answer 1

Consider the code

for i in range(10):
    print "You'll see this 10 times", i

The idea is that you get a list of length y-x, which you can (as you see above) iterate over.

Read up on the python docs for range - they consider for-loop iteration the primary usecase.