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#This option produces a reversed copy of the list. Contrast this to mylist.reverse() which
#reverses the original list
>>> mylist
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>> mylist[::-1]
[5, 4, 3, 2, 1]
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the_list = [1,2,3]
reversed_list = the_list.reverse()
list(reversed_list) # will return [3,2,1]
# OR, better
the_list = [1,2,3]
the_list[::-1] # will also return [3,2,1]
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# reversing a list in Python
numbers = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
print(numbers[::-1])
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# define a list
my_list = [1, 2, 3, 4]
# reverse the list
reversed_list = list(reversed(my_list))
print(reversed_list) #print as [4, 3, 2, 1]
# reverse the list in place
my_list.reverse()
print(my_list) #print as [4, 3, 2, 1]
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mylist = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
#reverse the elements
mylist.reverse()
print(mylist)
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list = [1,2,3,4,5]
reversed_list = list[::-1] # [::-1] [start : stop : step]
print(reversed_list)