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Reversing an iterator with older version of Python

Hello everyone,

I need to reverse an iterator in my program.

There are many posting to related to this. But most of them are
talking about how to expand the language to support such. In fact
reversed() built-in function is added in Python 2.4 to do such.

However, I need to use Python 2.2.x because of a module I'm using.

I can think of very crude way to reverse the iterator. But I don't
like it.
(It is so crude such that I'm ashamed to show it here)

Is there any elegant way to reverse an iterator using the features
available in older Python, such as Python 2.2.

These day, things are moving too fast to follow.

Any suggestions are highly appreciated.

Best regards,
Aki Niimura
Jul 18 '05 #1
2 1481
On 12 Nov 2003 10:22:12 -0800,
Aki Niimura <ak*****@pacbel l.net> wrote:
I need to reverse an iterator in my program.


Convert it to a list and then reverse the list:

L = list(iterator)
L.reverse()

This means that the contents must fit in memory, but that's probably OK; if
you want to read the lines of a 2-gigabyte file in reverse order, you're
better off writing some custom code for reading the file.

--amk
Jul 18 '05 #2
"A.M. Kuchling" <am*@amk.ca> wrote in message
Convert it to a list and then reverse the list:

L = list(iterator)
L.reverse()


It did the job for me.
Now my python program is working as I intended.
Hope I can move to a newer version of Python soon so that I can use
an iterator much like a list.

Thank you!
Aki Niimura
Jul 18 '05 #3

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