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		wayn3 on June 11, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Code boilerplate: Is it always bad? yea, because 5 is the end of the range. if you do sum(range(0,10,2)), 10 isn't reached either. why are we having this discussion?

_clhx on June 11, 2017 [–]

Yeah, but if you write "end_range" I'd expect that to be the end range. So your implementation should actually be something like:

[j2 for j in range(0, (11+1)/2)]

Your code is wrong.

sum(range(0,11,2)) works as expected, [j*2 for j in range(0, (11)/2)] does not.

wayn3 on June 11, 2017 | [–]

congrats.

_clhx on June 11, 2017 | | [–]

What?

You seem like you have issues.

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