Pre-PEP: reverse iteration methods

Andrew Dalke adalke at mindspring.com
Wed Sep 24 00:44:21 EDT 2003


Sean Ross:
> This will mostly just be some alternate naming suggestions:
>
> How about just ".backwards",  where backwards acts like a read-only
property
> that returns a generator for reverse iteration?

-1 from me.  'backwards' looks to me like something which changes
the list ordering in place, like what 'reverse' does.  Or something
which returns a new list but in reverse order.  It's an adjective,
when it should be a verb.

ibackwords would work, but so would riter or reviter or
variations thereof.

                    Andrew
                    dalke at dalkescientific.com






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