using reverse in list of tuples

[Steven W. Orr]

On 06/10/10 04:41, quoth Marco Nawijn:
> On Jun 10, 2:39 am, james_027 <cai.hai... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> I am trying to reverse the order of my list of tuples and its is
>> returning a None to me. Is the reverse() function not allow on list
>> containing tuples?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> James
> 
> As the others already mentioned list.reverse() is in-place, just as
> for
> example list.sort(). Alternatively, use the builtin reversed() or
> sorted()
> functions to get a return value (they will leave the original list
> unmodified.
> 
> Example:
>>>> a = range(3)
>>>> b = reversed(a)
>>>> for item in b:
>       ...print item
> This will produce:
>   2
>   1
>   0
> 
> Note that reversed returns an iterator.
> 
> Marco

How about just doing it the old fashioned way via slicing.

>>> foo = (4,5,8,2,9,1,6)
>>> foo[::-1]
(6, 1, 9, 2, 8, 5, 4)
>>>

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