Confused, please help

Question

Why does this:

a, b, c, d, *e, f, g = range(20)
print(len(e))

print out 14?

Answer 1

Range(20)
Return
0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19
a = 0
b = 1
c = 2
d = 3
e = 4-17 numbers
f = 18
g = 19

len(e) will return how many numbers in 4-17 they are 14😄

Hope you understand

happy coding!

Answer 2

As far as I know

For range based loops if we assign corresponding var, it should take up the whole value.

i.e. for eg when range is 20 and 6 variables it takes 6 values of one.

And the remaining 20-6=14 is taken up by *e

So len(e)=14