[newbie] Iterating a list in reverse ?
Tim Chase
python.list at tim.thechases.com
Wed Jun 21 13:09:18 EDT 2006
> Python newbie: I've got this simple task working (in about ten
> different ways), but I'm looking for the "favoured" and "most Python
> like" way.
>
> Forwards I can do this
> for t in listOfThings:
> print t
>
> Now how do I do it in reverse?
Then general process would be to use the reversed() iterator:
for t in reversed(listOfThings):
print t
Python provides a sorted() wrapper of the same non-in-place form.
-tkc
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