Python range() with negative strides

Question

Is there a way of using the range() function with stride -1?

E.g. using range(10, -10) instead of the square-bracketed values below?

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Answer 1

To summarize, these 3 are the best efficient and relevant to answer approaches I believe:

first = list(x for x in range(10, -11, -1))

second = list(range(-10, 11))

third = [x for x in reversed(range(-10, 11))]

Alternatively, NumPy would be more efficient as it creates an array as below, which is much faster than creating and writing items to the list in python. You can then convert it to the list:

import numpy as np

first = -(np.arange(10, -11, -1))

Notice the negation sign for first.

second = np.arange(-10, 11)

Convert it to the list as follow or use it as numpy.ndarray type.

to_the_list = first.tolist()