How do I reverse a sublist in a list in place?

Question

I\'m supposed to create a function, which input is a list and two numbers, the function reverses the sublist which its place is indicated by the two numbers. for example this is

Answer 1

Try some crazy slicing, see Explain Python's slice notation and http://docs.python.org/2.3/whatsnew/section-slices.html

x = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]

def sublist_reverse(start_rev, end_rev, lst):
    return lst[:end_rev-1:start_rev-1]+lst[:[end_rev]

print sublist_reverse(0,4,x)

[out]:

[8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1]