How to Reverse a List in Python?1 min read

There are three method to reverse a list in python that are given below:

1. Reversing a list in-place with the list.reverse() method
2. Using the “[::-1]” list slicing trick to create a reversed copy
3. Creating a reverse iterator with the reversed() built-in function

Reversing a List In-Place With the list.reverse() Method

>>> list = [,4,5,67,88,9]
>>> list.reverse()
>>> list
[9,88,67,5,4]

Using the “[::-1]” Slicing method to Reverse a Python List

>>> list = [5,6,7,90,9]
>>> list[::-1]
[9,99,7,6,5]

Creating a Reverse Iterator With the reversed() Built-In Function

>>> new_list = [1,2,3,45,5]
>>> print(list(reversed(new_list)))
[5,45,3,2,1]

or

>>> mylist = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>> for item in reversed(mylist):
...     print(item)
5
4
3
2
1
>>> mylist
>>> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]