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

I have similar thing. For example, to shift by two...

def Shift(*args):
    return args[len(args)-2:]+args[:len(args)-2]