[Tutor] Beginner question(s)

[Michael Sullivan]

On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 05:58 -0500, Bill Tatum wrote:
> Hi,
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> I’m working through Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner.  One
> of the challenges at the end of chapter 4 is to get a message from the
> user and then print it out backwards. I have…
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> message = raw_input("Enter your message:")
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> count = len(message)
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> print count
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> which gives me the number of characters in the message.  I tried to
> use a for loop:
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> for i in range(len(message)-1,-1, -1):
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>     print i,
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> but I just get the numeric values of the string.  Can anyone help?
> 

I'm a python beginner myself, but shouldn't that last "print i" be "print message[i]?  As it stands, you're only printing the numeric value 'i'.
-Michael Sullivan-