In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thank you but your advice doesn't fit in my case since I want to keep > the memory usage and the initial time minimum. iterable[::-1] would > build another list and it would take big memory and time during > reversing if iterable were huge. (and the "iterable" wouldn't be > garbage-collected because I want to keep a reference to it)
If your list contains numbers (or lists of numbers), consider using NumPy (Numeric) or Numarray, in which seq[::-1] will actually return a "view", and not a copy. Just -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
