Need help with a string plz! (newbie)

[israphelr at googlemail.com]

On 9 Mar, 21:58, Larry Bates <lba... at websafe.com> wrote:
> israph... at googlemail.com wrote:
> > On Mar 9, 9:37 pm, Grant Edwards <gra... at visi.com> wrote:
> >> On 2007-03-09, israph... at googlemail.com <israph... at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> >>> I thought maybe I could create another variable and then assign each
> >>> character into the new string by concatenating, makign a new string
> >>> each time, but I find this a bit muddling at the moment. Any help'd be
> >>> great. Thanks.
> >> s = ''
> >> for c in word:
> >>     s = c + s
> >> print s
>
> > Okay thanks very much, I used this method, since it's cloest one to I
> > am already faimilar with.
>
> > Here's the final code..(if anyones interested)
>
> > ######################################################
>
> > print "\nWelcome !"
> > print "\nEnter a word, and the world will be reversed!"
>
> > word = raw_input("\nPlease Enter a word: ")
>
> > end = len(word)
> > end -= 1
> > new_string = ""
>
> > for position in range(end, -1, -1):
> >    new_string += word[position]
>
> > print new_string
>
> > raw_input("\nPress Enter to Exit")
>
> > #######################################
>
> If you are really trying to learn Python, you really owe it to
> yourself to study Grant's replies.  You are using constructs
> from some previous language that you learned and trying to
> apply them to Python.  IMHO Python programmers would never use
> s=c+s on strings as it is quite inefficient.  The methods
> and functions he uses reversed(), .join(), list() are very
> powerful Python constructs that you will need to learn how
> to use.  The slicing word[-1::-1] is also something that
> will come in handy later if you learn how to use it.  This
> is a simple example that you can learn a lot from if you
> will study Grant's responses.
>
> Just my two cents.
>
> -Larry

Oh, thanks for the advice then. And as for Grant..look forward to
seeing more of your posts.