reversing of lists in python code example

Example 1: reverse list python

>>> the_list = [1,2,3]
>>> reversed_list = the_list.reverse()
>>> list(reversed_list)
[3,2,1]

OR

>>> the_list = [1,2,3]
>>> the_list[::-1]
[3,2,1]

Example 2: how to reverse a list in python

mylist
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

mylist[::-1]
[5, 4, 3, 2, 1]