iterating in reverse

[Paul Rubin]

jbperez808 at yahoo.com (Jonathan P.) writes:
> > It's not too elegant, but
> > 
> > 	for j in range(len(x) - 1, -1, -1):
> > 	    i = x[j]
> > 	    print i
> 
> This looks like the best bet so far short of using 2.3.  One thing
> though, would using xrange instead of range be preferable?

Yes, xrange is preferable.  And I think the 2.3 method makes a second
copy of the list, so the wish to not make a copy is unsatisfied.

You could always say:

for j in range(len(x)):
    i = x[-j - 1]
    print i