[Tutor] Speed of accessing list components

[Dragonfirebane at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/26/2004 11:24:37 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
bgailer at alum.rpi.edu writes:
Only for the special case where the list consists of consecutive integers 
starting with 1.
My apologies. You are, of course, correct. However, I also suggested a 
solution that would work on strings, etc.:

>>> i = 0
>>> for x in string.ascii_letters:
        i -= 1
        print string.ascii_letters[i]

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