Question

I know that assigning some values to an array would be as below:

arrayX = [20080711, 20080712, 20080713, 20080714]

But I couldn’t find out how to quickly assign these values as a range to the array.

Answer 1

In Python 2.x:

arrayX = range(20080711, 20080714+1)

in Python 3.x:

arrayX = list(range(20080711, 20080714+1))

However, if your ints represent something like a date (YYYYMMDD), it will be trickier:

from datetime import datetime, timedelta
arrayX = []
dt = datetime(2008, 7, 11)
while dt <= datetime(2008, 7, 14):
    arrayX.append(int(dt.strftime('%Y%m%d')))
    dt += timedelta(days=1)

which works over months and years.