more newbie help needed

[bruno at modulix]

Steve Holden wrote:
> john boy wrote:
> 
>> using the following program:
>>  
>> fruit = "banana"
>> index = 0
>> while index < len (fruit):
>>      letter = fruit[index-1]
>>      print letter
>>      index= index -1
>>  

>> this program is supposed to spell "banana" backwards and in a vertical
>> patern...it does this....but after spelling "banana" it gives an error
>> message:

(snip)


> Note, however, that there are more pythonic ways to perform this task.
> You might try:
> 
> for index in range(len(fruit)):
>   letter = fruit[-index-1]
>   print letter
> 
> as one example. I'm sure other readers will have their own ways to do
> this, many of them more elegant.

let's see... what about:

  for c in reversed(fruit): print c

or:

  print "\n".join(reversed(fruit))



-- 
bruno desthuilliers
python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
p in 'onurb at xiludom.gro'.split('@')])"