iterating in reverse

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Thu Jan 16 19:24:20 EST 2003


"Jonathan P." wrote:

> Is there an elegant and
> efficient way to iterate through x in
> reverse without having to create a reversed
> copy of it (i.e. y=x[:]; y.reverse())?

It's not too elegant, but

	for j in range(len(x) - 1, -1, -1):
	    i = x[j]
	    print i

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