Efficient way to rotate a list in python

Question

What is the most efficient way to rotate a list in python? Right now I have something like this:

>>> def rotate(l, n):
...     return l[n:] + l[:n]         


        

Answer 1

If you just want to iterate over these sets of elements rather than construct a separate data structure, consider using iterators to construct a generator expression:

def shift(l,n):
    return itertools.islice(itertools.cycle(l),n,n+len(l))

>>> list(shift([1,2,3],1))
[2, 3, 1]