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		RiderOfGiraffes on Feb 22, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Non-Programming Programmer It's also wrong - "readlines" keeps the "\n", and you've added another one between lines.

Luyt on Feb 22, 2010 [–]

Indeed. A cosmetic refinement, but it should really be:

  python -c "print ''.join(reversed(list(open('test.py'))))"

That's even two characters less!

spudlyo on Feb 22, 2010 | [–]

Good, but too easy. Assume you can't keep the file in memory.

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