On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:26:07 -0700, Paul McGuire wrote: > On Apr 28, 1:12 pm, Mark Bryan Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This set of codes works: >> >> >>> x = range(5) >> >>> x.reverse() >> >>> x >> >> [4, 3, 2, 1, 0] >> >> > You can also use list slicing to get a reversed list: > >>>> x = range(5) >>>> x > [0, 1, 2, 3, 4] >>>> x[::-1] > [4, 3, 2, 1, 0] > > -- Paul
More alternatives: >>> range(4, -1, -1) [4, 3, 2, 1, 0] >>> list(reversed(xrange(5))) [4, 3, 2, 1, 0] If you don't need a list the fastest thing will be xrange(4, -1, -1) -- Ivan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
