[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If what you want is a reversed copy, you could just append list1 > elements to list2, and use the reverse function such as > >>> ... > >>> for i in list1: > ... list2.append(i) > ... > >>> list2.reverse() > >>> list1 > ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9'] > >>> list2 > ['9', '8', '7', '6', '5', '4', '3', '2', '1']
It's much clearer and simpler to just do: >>> list2 = list1[:] >>> list2.reverse() This saves all the messing around with append, and has the advantage that it runs faster (by a factor of 30, on my computer). -- David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
