Pythonic way of iterating over ranges when order is not known

Question

Say I have 2 variables x and y and I want to iterate over all the values in between without knowing whether x or y is greater:

if(x>y):
  for i in range(y,x):
    #Code

elif(x<y):
  for i in range(x,y):
    #Code

What is the Pythonic way to do this without all the if-else conditions? The order does not matter descending or ascending will do, but a general answer would be great!

Answer 1

How about:

for i in range(min(x,y), max(x,y)):
    ...

Answer 2

Another way is to use sorted with unpacking:

x, y = 10, 1
for i in range(*sorted([x,y])):
    print(i)

Output:

1
2
3
...