Alternate for range in python

Question

If I have to generate natural numbers, I can use 'range' as follows:

list(range(5))

[0, 1, 2, 3, 4]

Is there any way to achieve this without using range function or looping?

Answer 1

You could use recursion to print first n natural numbers

def printNos(n):

    if n > 0:

        printNos(n-1)
        print n

printNos(100)

Answer 2

Based on Nihal's solution, but returns a list instead:

def recursive_range(n):
    if n == 0:
        return []
    return recursive_range(n-1) + [n-1]