How to return a reversed list back to its original state in python

Question

I was just curious as to whether or not there is a function to turn a reversed list back to its original form or would the solution just to be to write the code to return it myself?

I do understand that i can simply assign the list to a variable(x) prior to reversing and then just assign the list back to x, but i am just curious.

I did think that calling the reverse() function twice would do this, but it did not,

Any answers are appreciated.

my_list = ["This", "is", "an", "example", "list"]
x = my_list
my_list.reverse()
print(my_list)
my_list = x
print(my_list)

Answer 1

usereversed() instead (which would return a new reversed iterable instead of reversing the list in place)

my_list = ["This", "is", "an", "example", "list"]
x = list(reversed(my_list))
print(x)
print(my_list)

output:

['list', 'example', 'an', 'is', 'This']
['This', 'is', 'an', 'example', 'list']