Running the example in the videos for chapter 8: Lists - A, the following code do not produce the result prof. Chuck say:
print(range(4))
the output I get is:
range(0, 4)
Can you please provide a link to the exercise you are working on?
Although, that curriculum is now considered legacy and will not be updated. I would suggest trying this more recent course material:
https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/scientific-computing-with-python/
I think it’s caused by different version of Python. In Python 3.x, when you print an iterable directly( in this case range(4)), it would display the range object representation: range(0, 4) . To print the content of the iterable, you need to add the unpacking operation * before it, i.e. print(*range(4)), it will give the output 0 1 2 3. The * operator unpacks the iterable(range(4)) into individual elements. The print() function then takes those individual elements as separate arguments and prints them out.
In Python 2.x, print(range(4)) will display the list of values[0, 1, 2, 3], print(*range(4)) will raise an error as * operator is not supported. I’m not sure why, I only know in Python 2 print is a statement rather than a function, don’t know the exact logic of operation.