🚀 Day 59/150 – Rotate a List in Python

Rotating a list means shifting its elements either to the left or to the right.

Example:
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Rotate right by 2 → [4, 5, 1, 2, 3]
Rotate left by 2 → [3, 4, 5, 1, 2]

Let’s explore different ways to rotate a list 👇

🔹 Method 1 – Right Rotation Using Slicing

numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] k = 2 rotated = numbers[-k:] + numbers[:-k] print("Right Rotated:", rotated)

🔹 Method 2 – Left Rotation Using Slicing

numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] k = 2 rotated = numbers[k:] + numbers[:k] print("Left Rotated:", rotated)

🔹 Method 3 – Using Loop (Right Rotation by One)

numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] last = numbers[-1] for i in range(len(numbers) - 1, 0, -1): numbers[i] = numbers[i - 1] numbers[0] = last print("Rotated List:", numbers)

🔹 Method 4 – Taking User Input

numbers = list(map(int, input("Enter numbers: ").split())) k = int(input("Enter rotation count: ")) k = k % len(numbers) rotated = numbers[-k:] + numbers[:-k] print("Rotated List:", rotated)

💡 Key Takeaways

• Slicing is the easiest way to rotate a list
• Use k % len(list) to handle large rotation values
• Right rotation uses [-k:] +[:-k]
• Left rotation uses [k:] +[:k]