On 4/25/2019 7:12 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I too often forget that reverse() returns an iterator,
I presume you mean reversed(). list.reverse() is a list
That seems like a mistake. Shouldn't it return a view?
RL = reversed(somelist) is already partly view-like. The nth next call
returns the nth item at the time of the next call, rather than at the
time of the reversed call. However, the number of items produced by
next calls is the length of the list at the time of the reversed call.
The first next(RL) is the current somelist[captured_length].
>>> somelist = [1,2,3]
>>> RL = reversed(somelist)
>>> somelist[-1] = None
>>> somelist.append(4)
>>> list(RL)
[None, 2, 1]
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Terry Jan Reedy
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