How do I reverse a list using recursion in Python?

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Append the first element of the list to a reversed sublist:

mylist = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
backwards = lambda l: (backwards (l[1:]) + l[:1] if l else []) 
print backwards (mylist)

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