Robert Kern wrote: > Rob Williscroft wrote: > >> import sys >> >> live = 'live' >> >> print live[ sys.maxint : : -1 ] >> print live[ len(live)-1 : : -1 ] >> >> print live[ len(live)-1 : -len(live)-1 : -1 ] >> print live[ len(live)-1 : -sys.maxint : -1 ] >> print live[ sys.maxint : -sys.maxint : -1 ] >> print live[ -1 : -len(live)-1 : -1 ] >> >> Of course there is only one obvious way to do it, but alas >> as I'm not Dutch I can't tell which it is. > > Well, that part's easy at least: > > live[::-1] > > :-) And so the circle is complete ...
What about reversed(live)? Or if you want a list instead of an iterator, list(reversed(live))? -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
