[Tutor] Problems understanding List reverse()

[Wesley Abbott]

Hello everyody.

I am having a slight problem with relation to 'list.reverse'. I am able ot 
get the reverse to work if a list is static, but if I have a user input 
information it does not seem to abe able to reverse. Please help. Code is 
below. TIA for all your help. I am totally new to programming, coming from a 
network engineer background. I am going through Wesley Chun's book right 
now. I also have the O'Reilly Learning to program Python. Once again thanks 
to all who can help me. I have all the different lists jsut to help me 
figure this out. Not trying to confuse anybody, :)

# a simple reverse function
def reversel(list):
    list.reverse()
    return list

alist = []
alist2 = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
alist.append(raw_input('Enter a string:  '))
print alist
print reversel(alist)
a = reversel(alist2)
print a

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