Newbi Q: Recursively reverse lists but NOT strings?

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
(snip)
> def myreversed(sequence):
>     if isinstance(sequence, basestring):
>         return type(sequence)().join(reversed(sequence))
>     else:
>         return type(sequence)(reversed(sequence))
> 
> (in fact, that's so simple I wonder why the built-in reversed() doesn't 
> do that).

Because it returns an iterator, not a sequence. Building back the 
appropriate sequence type from when needed it is usually a definitive 
no-brainer, and there are case where you definitively *don't* want a 
full sequence to be built (like when iterating backward over a 
millions-element long list...).

Definitively the right design choice here IMHO.

My 2 cents