Best way to create a “reversed” list in Python?

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newlist = oldlist[::-1]

The [::-1] slicing (which my wife Anna likes to call “the Martian smiley”;-) means: slice the whole sequence, with a step of -1, i.e., in reverse. It works for all sequences.

Note that this (and the alternatives you mentioned) is equivalent to a “shallow copy”, i.e.: if the items are mutable and you call mutators on them, the mutations in the items held in the original list are also in the items in the reversed list, and vice versa. If you need to avoid that, a copy.deepcopy (while always a potentially costly operation), followed in this case by a .reverse, is the only good option.

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