The range function generates a sequence of numbers:
print( range(5)) # -> [0, 1, 2, 3, 4] print( range( 1, 9)) # -> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] print( range( 0, 10, 2)) # -> [0, 2, 4, 6, 8]