List - rotate

[Duncan Booth]

Dale Strickland-Clark <dale at riverhall.NOTHANKS.co.uk> wrote in 
news:nf0t4ugt1qio7r34eg392st617h6qk9nc1 at 4ax.com:

>>For a string I do the following to Rotate Right:
>>
>>s = "abc"
>>s[1:]+s[0]
>>>> s = "bca"
>>
>>which works correctly.
>>
>>Tried the following for list, does not seem to work.
>>a = [1,2,3]
>>a[1:].append(a[0])
>>
> 
To mutate a list you should use pop and append.
    	a.append(a.pop(0))
To create a new, rotated list you can use similar code to your string. The 
following should work for any sequence type including list, tuple and 
string:
    	s = s[1:]+s[:1]

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Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
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