list.reverse()

Gabriel Genellina gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar
Wed Apr 30 03:57:11 EDT 2008


En Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:32:46 -0300, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> escribió:

> What you want to do is look at the reversed() function.  Not only does it
> return something (other than Null), but it is much faster because it
> doesn't have to store the reversed list anywhere.  What it returns is an
> iterator which walks the list in reverse order.  
> Same with list.sort() vs. the global sorted().

No, sorted() returns a -newly created- true list, not an iterator. Its  
argument may be any iterable, but the result is always a list.

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Gabriel Genellina




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