Where does this seemingly irrelevant number come from when using the range() module in Python?

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I am asked to create two input variables (low and high) and output the odd numbers between both. I decided to use range() module and gave 3 to low, and 7 to high, as their values. The program is expected to return only 5, but it returned 5 and 3.
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low = int(input("enter the first number: "))
high = int(input("enter the second number: "))

def program(low, high):
    numbers = range(low, high, 2)
        
    for n in numbers:
        print(n)
        

program(low, high)

So how could I fix it?

Asked By: Léo

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Answer 1

A range includes low and excludes high, per the documentation: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#typesseq-range.

range is a type, not a module.

Answered By: ndc85430

Answer 2

The range(low, high, 2) is such that

low is included, high is not included, skip=2

Since you gave low=3 and high=7, the numbers will be 3 and skip 2 to get 5 (and 7 is not included)

Answered By: Adrian Ang

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