Dave wrote:
> This should be simple, but I can't get it:
>
> How do you loop backwards through a list?
>
> For example, in, say, Javascript:
>
> for (var i = list.length - 1; i >=0; i--) {
> do_stuff()
> }
>
> I mean, I could reverse the list, but I don't want to. I want it to
> stay exactly the same, but I want to start at the end and end at the
> beginning.
Negative indexes start at the opposite end than positive indexes.
>>> s = [1,2,3,4,5]
>>> for i in range(len(s)):
print s[-i-1],
5 4 3 2 1
>>>
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Dave
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