[Tutor] Help needed

[christopher.henk at allisontransmission.com]

> My Original message:
> 
> I had previously emailed y'all regarding inverting a message input by 
the user of the program backwards. After much 
> contemplation on your earlier replies I came up with the code I have 
included in this email. The problem I am having 
> with this code is that the the first character of the message that is 
reversed does not come up. Is there a solution 
> to this? For my message that I input I used "take this" to test it, use 
the same message when the program prompts you 
> to enter the message and run it, you'll see what I mean. Also is there a 
way to say reverse the string in a way so the
> reversed string would result to "this take" if you use my example? And 
is there a way to stop the loop without the use
> of break? Thanks for the help!
> 

As to your second part of your request you can use the function split.

http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.4/lib/string-methods.html

>>> mystring="Mary had a little lamb."
>>> mystring.split()
['Mary', 'had', 'a', 'little', 'lamb.']
>>>

And then you can use slicing to reverse the created list the same way you 
did with the full string.


        Chris
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