How to reverse tuples in a list?

[Erik Max Francis]

Noah wrote:

> But it seems like there should be a clever way to do this with
> a list comprehensions. Problem is I can't see how to apply
> reverse() to  each tuple  in the list because reverse() a
> list method (not a tuple method) and because it operates
> in-place (does not return a value). This kind of wrecks doing
> it in a list comprehension. What I'd like to say is something like
> this:
>     y = [t.reverse() for t in y]
> Even if reverse worked on tuples, it wouldn't work inside a
> list comprehension.

Why would you want to do it with list comprehensions?  Use reversed:

 >>> t = (1, 2, 3)
 >>> u = tuple(reversed(t))
 >>> u
(3, 2, 1)


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