[Tutor] reversing a string

[Wesley Chun]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Praveen Pathiyil wrote:

>         Is there any methods in string module or any builtin functions to reverse a string ?
>  I am using Python 1.5.2

as others have pointed out, the answer is no, but the
easiest way to do it in Python is to reverse a list.

however, if your application requires reverse a massive
number of strings continuously, it would probably benefit
you to write such functionality as an extension.  that
way, you won't have a "translation" bottleneck.

and as it turns out, this is the extension example in
Chapter 20 (Extending Python) in the Core Python Programming
text.  (shamelss but relative plug i hope!)  ;-)  if you're
not interested in the book, you can still get the code from
the book's website (see below).

hope this helps!

-wesley

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