Reverse a String?

Leif K-Brooks eurleif at ecritters.biz
Sat Sep 23 17:04:57 EDT 2006


Gregory Piñero wrote:
> Is my mind playing tricks on me? I really remember being able to
> reverse a string as in:
> 
> text='greg'
> print text.reverse()
>>> 'gerg'

That method has never existed AFAIK. Maybe you're thinking of the 
reverse() method on lists?

In any case, the you can reverse strings in a couple of ways:

  >>> ''.join(reversed('foo'))
  'oof'
  >>> 'foo'[::-1]
  'oof'



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