[Tutor] reversing a string

[Simon Brunning]

> From:	Praveen Pathiyil [SMTP:ppathiyi@cisco.com]
>          Is there any methods in string module or any builtin functions to
> reverse a string ?  I am using Python 1.5.2
>   
Nothing built in that I know of, but it's pretty simple. Try the following
(untested):

import string

def reversestring(inString):
    letters = list(inString)
    letters.reverse()
    return string.join(letters, '')

Cheers,
Simon Brunning
TriSystems Ltd.
sbrunning@trisystems.co.uk





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