Re: list reversal error

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On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 6:08 PM, John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> wrote:

> In <8b3d06eb-0027-4396-bdf8-fee0cc9ff771@googlegroups.com>
> vlyamtsev@gmail.com writes:
>
> > i have list of strings "data" and i am trying to build reverse list data1
> > data1 = []
> > for i in range(len(data)):
> >    j = len(data) - i
> >    data1.append(data[j])
>
> > but i have the following error:
> > data1.append(data[j])
> > IndexError: list index out of range
> >
> > am i doing it wrong?
> > Thanks
>
> Python lists are zero-indexed, meaning a list of five items will have
> indexes 0 to 4.
>
> The first time through your loop, i is 0, so
>
>     j = len(data) - i
>
> evaluates to
>
>     j = len(data)
>
> which would yield 5 for a five-element list, but the last actual element
> is in data[4].
>

>>> s = "123"
>>> s2 = s[::-1]
>>> s2
'321'
>>>

Use reverse slice

>
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list reversal error vlyamtsev@gmail.com - 2016-03-03 14:51 -0800
  Re: list reversal error John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2016-03-03 23:08 +0000
    Re: list reversal error Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2016-03-03 18:13 -0500
    Re: list reversal error MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2016-03-03 23:20 +0000
  Re: list reversal error Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-03 23:20 +0000
  Re: list reversal error Gary Herron <gherron@digipen.edu> - 2016-03-03 15:15 -0800
  Re: list reversal error Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-04 11:06 +1100

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