Get values of range object without using 'for' loop

It seems range() doesn’t have a method of getting values (something like dict().values()).

Is there a way of getting the values without doing "manual" iteration (like [x for x in range(10)])?

>Solution :

To get a list of the values: list(range(10)) or [*range(10)]

To get a tuple: tuple(range(10))

That concise [*range(10)] solution makes use of the syntax introduced in PEP 448 ("Additional unpacking generalisations"). Generically, if itb is some finite iterable, then [*itb] is the list formed by iterating over its elements.

For example, using a generator as the iterable:

def squares_gen(n):
  for i in range(n):
    yield i**2

res = [*squares_gen(5)]
print(type(res))
print(res)

prints:

<class 'list'>
[0, 1, 4, 9, 16]