<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Anand Chitipothu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anandology@gmail.com">anandology@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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> Don't use sorted(..., reverse=True). Instead reverse the list in place<br>
> by using reverse slicing of l[-1::-1], which is about 1.5 times faster.<br>
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</div>Why are you using [-1::-1] for reversing? Isn't [::-1] the python<br>
idiom for reversing a list?</blockquote><div><br>I am used to [-1::-1] and "Explicit is better than implicit".<br>[::-1] gives (at least to me) the impression that it is equal to [0::-1]<br>which it is not.<br>
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