python - What's "better" the reverse method or the reversed built-in function?

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

foo.reverse() actually reverses the elements in the container. reversed() doesn't actually reverse anything, it merely returns an object that can be used to iterate over the container's elements in reverse order. If that's what you need, it's often faster than actually reversing the elements.