Question

What is typically regarded as more Pythonic/better/faster to use, the reverse method or the reversed built-in function?

Both in action:

_list = list(xrange(4))

print _list

rlist = list(reversed(_list))

print rlist

_list.reverse()

print _list

Answer 1

Depends on whether you want to reverse the list in-place (i.e. change the list) or not. No other real difference.

_{Often using reversed leads to nicer code.}