Decreasing for loops in Python impossible?

Question

I could be wrong (just let me know and I'll delete the question) but it seems python won't respond to

for n in range(6,0):     print n 

I tried using xrange and it didn't work either. How can I implement that?

Answer 1

for n in range(6,0,-1):     print n # prints [6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1] 

Answer 2

This is very late, but I just wanted to add that there is a more elegant way: using reversed

for i in reversed(range(10)):     print i 

gives:

4 3 2 1 0