On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandol...@gmail.com>wrote:

> >
> > Don't use sorted(..., reverse=True). Instead reverse the list in place
> > by using reverse slicing of l[-1::-1], which is about 1.5 times faster.
>
> Why are you using [-1::-1] for reversing? Isn't [::-1] the python
> idiom for reversing a list?


I am used to [-1::-1] and "Explicit is better than implicit".
[::-1] gives (at least to me) the impression that it is equal to [0::-1]
which it is not.


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