iterations destroy reversed() results

[Pierre Fortin]

Hi,

reversed() results are fine until iterated over, after which the
results are no longer available. This was discovered after using
something like this:

rev = reversed( sorted( list ) ) 
sr = sum( 1 for _ in rev )
# rev is now destroyed

So reversed() results can only be iterated once unlike sorted(), etc...

Script to illustrate the issue:
/tmp/rev:
orig = [ 'x', 'a', 'y', 'b', 'z', 'c' ]
co = sum( 1 for _ in orig )
print( 'orig', orig, co )
# reversing
rev = reversed(orig)
print( 'before iteration:', [ x for x in rev ] )
# list comprehension was an iteration over 'rev'
print( 'after iteration:', [ x for x in rev ] )
# how this was discovered...
orig = [ 'x', 'a', 'y', 'b', 'z', 'c' ]
rev = reversed(orig)
cr = sum( 1 for _ in rev )
print( 'after sum():', [ x for x in rev ] )

which produces:

$ python /tmp/rev
orig ['x', 'a', 'y', 'b', 'z', 'c'] 6
before iteration: ['c', 'z', 'b', 'y', 'a', 'x']
after iteration: []
after sum(): []

Regards,
Pierre