On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai <
abpil...@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Anand Chitipothu 
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>> > 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.
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>> Why are you using [-1::-1] for reversing? Isn't [::-1] the python
>> idiom for reversing a list?
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> 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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As a python newbie, I find this a bit annoying. It would be nicer to have a
simple reverse method in the str class.

name="The world according to Garp"
# name.reverse() or str.reverse(name) sure beats the hell out of
name[-1::-1] or name[::-1]

Jayanth
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