This PR is based on #6081, thanks adrian-wang.

Closes #6081

Author: Daoyuan Wang <daoyuan.wang@intel.com>
Author: Davies Liu <davies@databricks.com>

Closes #6230 from davies/range and squashes the following commits:

d3ce5fe [Davies Liu] add tests
789eda5 [Davies Liu] add range() in Python
4590208 [Davies Liu] Merge commit 'refs/pull/6081/head' of github.com:apache/spark into range
cbf5200 [Daoyuan Wang] let's add python support in a separate PR
f45e3b2 [Daoyuan Wang] remove redundant toLong
617da76 [Daoyuan Wang] fix safe marge for corner cases
867c417 [Daoyuan Wang] fix
13dbe84 [Daoyuan Wang] update
bd998ba [Daoyuan Wang] update comments
d3a0c1b [Daoyuan Wang] add range api()