BUG: RangeIndex has zero length after subtraction from constant value

[mosc9575]

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Reproducible Example

import pandas as pd
s = pd.Series([0,1,2,3])
print(s.index)
>>> RangeIndex(start=0, stop=4, step=1)
print(-s.index)
>>> Index([0, -1, -2, -3], dtype='int64')
print(3-s.index)
>>> RangeIndex(start=3, stop=-1, step=1)
print(len(3-s.index))
>>> 0

Issue Description

If the index of a Series or DataFrame is a RangeIndex object the example below

s = pd.Series([0,1,2,3])
s.index = s.index.max() - s.index

raises a ValueError, because the new RangeIndex has a length of zero.

ValueError Traceback

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
Input In [26], in <cell line: 2>()
      1 s = pd.Series([0,1,2,3])
----> 2 s.index = s.index.max() - s.index

File /opt/conda/envs/bk3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/core/generic.py:6002, in NDFrame.__setattr__(self, name, value)
   6000 try:
   6001     object.__getattribute__(self, name)
-> 6002     return object.__setattr__(self, name, value)
   6003 except AttributeError:
   6004     pass

File /opt/conda/envs/bk3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/_libs/properties.pyx:69, in pandas._libs.properties.AxisProperty.__set__()

File /opt/conda/envs/bk3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/core/generic.py:730, in NDFrame._set_axis(self, axis, labels)
    725 """
    726 This is called from the cython code when we set the `index` attribute
    727 directly, e.g. `series.index = [1, 2, 3]`.
    728 """
    729 labels = ensure_index(labels)
--> 730 self._mgr.set_axis(axis, labels)
    731 self._clear_item_cache()

File /opt/conda/envs/bk3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/core/internals/managers.py:225, in BaseBlockManager.set_axis(self, axis, new_labels)
    223 def set_axis(self, axis: AxisInt, new_labels: Index) -> None:
    224     # Caller is responsible for ensuring we have an Index object.
--> 225     self._validate_set_axis(axis, new_labels)
    226     self.axes[axis] = new_labels

File /opt/conda/envs/bk3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/core/internals/base.py:70, in DataManager._validate_set_axis(self, axis, new_labels)
     67     pass
     69 elif new_len != old_len:
---> 70     raise ValueError(
     71         f"Length mismatch: Expected axis has {old_len} elements, new "
     72         f"values have {new_len} elements"
     73     )

ValueError: Length mismatch: Expected axis has 4 elements, new values have 0 elements

Expected Behavior

I would expect, that the step changes to -1 or the object is transferred to an Index object like -s.index does.

Installed Versions

INSTALLED VERSIONS ------------------ commit : 37ea63d python : 3.9.10.final.0 python-bits : 64 OS : Linux OS-release : 4.19.0-21-amd64 Version : #1 SMP Debian 4.19.249-2 (2022-06-30) machine : x86_64 processor : x86_64 byteorder : little LC_ALL : en_US.UTF-8 LANG : en_US.UTF-8 LOCALE : en_US.UTF-8

pandas : 2.0.1
numpy : 1.22.2
pytz : 2021.3
dateutil : 2.8.2
setuptools : 60.9.3
pip : 22.0.3
Cython : 0.29.28
pytest : 7.0.1
hypothesis : None
sphinx : None
blosc : None
feather : None
xlsxwriter : None
lxml.etree : 4.8.0
html5lib : None
pymysql : None
psycopg2 : None
jinja2 : 3.0.3
IPython : 8.1.1
pandas_datareader: None
bs4 : 4.11.2
bottleneck : None
brotli : None
fastparquet : None
fsspec : 2022.02.0
gcsfs : None
matplotlib : 3.5.1
numba : None
numexpr : 2.8.1
odfpy : None
openpyxl : 3.0.9
pandas_gbq : None
pyarrow : None
pyreadstat : None
pyxlsb : None
s3fs : None
scipy : 1.8.0
snappy : None
sqlalchemy : None
tables : 3.7.0
tabulate : None
xarray : None
xlrd : None
zstandard : None
tzdata : 2023.3
qtpy : None
pyqt5 : None

[asishm]

The core issue here is that 3 - pd.RangeIndex(0,4,1) returns a RangeIndex with step of 1 instead of -1. len(pd.RangeIndex(3,-1,-1)) does correctly return 4.

[topper-123]

Yes, this is a bug. PR welcome.