Reverse a String?

[Fredrik Lundh]

p.lavarre at ieee.org wrote:

> That 'foo'[::-1] is the Python reverse string idiom I'll try here
> forward, thanks.
> 
> Also '.h.e.l.l.o'[1::2] to pick out every second char, etc., thanks.
> 
> Three footnotes:
> 
> 1) Reverse string isn't yet in http://www.python.org/doc/faq/

so what are you waiting for?

     http://pyfaq.infogami.com/

> 2) Google Groups searches here yesterday instead pushed me towards the
> less concise:
> 
> 	def reverse(chars):
> 		aa = array.array('c', chars)
> 		aa.reverse()
> 		return aa.tostring()

that's a reasonably efficient way to do this in older versions.

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