python - Pythonic way to iterate through a range starting at 1

Question

Currently if I want to iterate 1 through n I would likely use the following method:

for _ in range(1, n+1):
    print(_)

Is there a cleaner way to accomplish this without having to reference n + 1 ?

It seems odd that if I want to iterate a range ordinally starting at 1, which is not uncommon, that I have to specify the increase by one twice:

1. With the 1 at the start of the range.
2. With the + 1 at the end of the range.

Answer 1

From the documentation:

range([start], stop[, step])

The start defaults to 0, the step can be whatever you want, except 0 and stop is your upper bound, it is not the number of iterations. So declare n to be whatever your upper bound is correctly and you will not have to add 1 to it.

e.g.

>>> for i in range(1, 7, 1): print(i)
... 
1
2
3
4
5
6
>>> for i in range(1, 7, 2): print(i)
... 
1
3
5

A nice feature, is that it works in reverse as well.

>>> for i in range(7, 0, -1): print(i)
... 
7
6
5
4
3
2
1