Stepping backwards in for loop?
Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
qrczak at knm.org.pl
Sat Apr 14 18:37:15 EDT 2001
Sat, 14 Apr 2001 13:37:54 -0300, Carlos Ribeiro <cribeiro at mail.inet.com.br> pisze:
> It would be a *lot* easier if strings had a reverse method, or if the
> reverse() methods returned the reversed string. However, similarly to
> sort(), the Python-way-of-doing-things must have some good reason for
> reverse() to behave this way (as a inplace operation on the list).
I don't think there is a deep reason, except some efficiency.
The functional style would provide these operations as returning
new versions.
They could be added to Python under names reversed() and sorted()
to avoid confusion.
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