Hi, I needed reversed(enumerate(x: list)) in my code, and have discovered that it wound't work. This is disappointing because operation is well defined. It is also well defined for str type, range, and - in principle, but not yet in practice - on dictionary iterators - keys(), values(), items() as dictionaries are ordered now. It would also be well defined on any user type implementing __iter__, __len__, __reversed__ - think numpy arrays, some pandas dataframes, tensors. That's plenty of usecases, therefore I guess it would be quite useful to avoid hacky / inefficient solutions like described here: https://code.activestate.com/lists/python-list/706205/. If deemed useful, I would be interested in implementing this, maybe together with __reversed__ on dict keys, values, items. Best Regards, -- Ilya Kamen ----------- p.s. *Sketch* of what I am proposing: class reversible_enumerate: def __init__(self, iterable): self.iterable = iterable self.ctr = 0 def __iter__(self): for e in self.iterable: yield self.ctr, e self.ctr += 1 def __reversed__(self): try: ri = reversed(self.iterable) except Exception as e: raise Exception( "enumerate can only be reversed if iterable to enumerate can be reversed and has defined length." ) from e try: l = len(self.iterable) except Exception as e: raise Exception( "enumerate can only be reversed if iterable to enumerate can be reversed and has defined length." ) from e indexes = range(l-1, -1, -1) for i, e in zip(indexes, ri): yield i, e for i, c in reversed(reversible_enumerate("Hello World")): print(i, c) for i, c in reversed(reversible_enumerate([11, 22, 33])): print(i, c)