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

As you know by now the real answer is that range is a C function which for some reason does not have the same rules of python (would be nice to know why).

People might hate me for suggesting this but I've being doing this for range since I have a terrible memory of what the order of things are. Imo this shouldn't be a problem so I'm fixing it:

range(*{'start':0,'stop':10,'step':2}.values())

the reason I made it a one liner is because I don't want to have to define a range function that needs to be defined everywhere or imported everywhere. This is pure python.