using reverse in list of tuples

[james_027]

hi,

I am trying to reverse the order of my list of tuples and its is
returning a None to me. Is the reverse() function not allow on list
containing tuples?

Thanks,
James

 

[rantingrick]

I am trying to reverse the order of my list of tuples and its is
returning a None to me. Is the reverse() function not allow on list
containing tuples?

list.revese() is an in-place operation! don't try to assign the return
value back to your list!

lst = [(x, x+1) for x in range(5)]
lst [(0, 1), (1, 2), (2, 3), (3, 4), (4, 5)]
lst.reverse()
lst

[(4, 5), (3, 4), (2, 3), (1, 2), (0, 1)]

 

[Terry Reedy]

hi,

I am trying to reverse the order of my list of tuples and its is
returning a None to me. Is the reverse() function not allow on list
containing tuples?

No. Mutation methods of builtins generally return None.

 

[Marco Nawijn]

hi,

I am trying to reverse the order of my list of tuples and its is
returning a None to me. Is the reverse() function not allow on list
containing tuples?

Thanks,
James

As the others already mentioned list.reverse() is in-place, just as
for
example list.sort(). Alternatively, use the builtin reversed() or
sorted()
functions to get a return value (they will leave the original list
unmodified.

Example: ...print item
This will produce:
2
1
0

Note that reversed returns an iterator.

Marco

 

[Steven W. Orr]

As the others already mentioned list.reverse() is in-place, just as
for
example list.sort(). Alternatively, use the builtin reversed() or
sorted()
functions to get a return value (they will leave the original list
unmodified.

Example:
...print item
This will produce:
2
1
0

Note that reversed returns an iterator.

Marco

How about just doing it the old fashioned way via slicing.

foo = (4,5,8,2,9,1,6)
foo[::-1] (6, 1, 9, 2, 8, 5, 4)

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