List rotation

[Steven Bethard]

M. Clift <noone <at> here.com> writes:
> 
> Could someone help me out with this?
> 
> items = ('a', 'b', 'c', 'd')
> items + 1 = ( 'b', 'c', 'd', 'a')

Is it necessary to (ab)use the + syntax?  If not, will this suffice:

>>> def rotate(seq, n):
...     return seq[n:] + seq[:n]
...
>>> rotate(range(10), 1)
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0]
>>> rotate(range(10), 2)
[2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, 1]

You also might want to search google groups for more information.  If I 
understand your question right, this has been asked a number of times, for 
example:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-
8&safe=off&selm=3c4e7b1a.1031701568%40news.mch.sni.de