Countdown

[Jeff Sandys]

Python is really elegant when counting up:

for i in range(len(thing)):
    print thing[i]

But when counting down looks ugly:

for j in range(len(thing)-1,-1,-1):
    print thing[i]

Advice so far:
Stop doing things backwards:
    (customer request)
Use reverse first:
    (destructive, need to unreverse after)
Live with it:
    (bytecode doesn't care, but it is still ugly)
Try range(len(thing)).reverse():
    (doesn't work but):
        rthing = range(len(thing))
        rthing.reverse()
        for k in rthing:
            print thing[i]
    (works, but also ugly)