On Aug 21, 2011 1:34 PM, "Max" <maxmo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > a[0:11][::-1] > > # Instead of a[10:-1:-1], which looks like it should work, but doesn't. > > It works nicely, but it is 1.3 times slower in my code (I am surprised > the interpreter doesn't optimize this).
Have you tried reverse()? I haven't timed it, but since it merely creates an iterator rather than a second copy, you may get better performance.
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