the strange arguments of range

Question

The range function in python3 takes three arguments. Two of them are optional. So the argument list looks like:

[start], stop, [step]

This means (correct me

Answer 1

range does not take keyword arguments:

range(start=0,stop=10)
TypeError: range() takes no keyword arguments

it takes 1, 2 or 3 positional arguments, they are evaluated according to their number:

range(stop)              # 1 argument
range(start, stop)       # 2 arguments
range(start, stop, step) # 3 arguments

i.e. it is not possible to create a range with defined stop and step and default start.