Orri said:
> Or you could just do the following:
>
> >>> print "\n\nWelcome to the Backwards Message Display."
> >>> print
> >>> message = raw_input("\nPlease Enter a Message.")
> >>> print message[::-1]
Interesting. I forgot about the 'step' option when slicing.
> This is the equivalent of print ''.join(reversed(message)), since
> reversed works on any iterable sequence, including strings.
Ha! Good call. Makes it even clearer.
> In any
> case, the syntax for this sort of thing in general is:
> sequence[start:stop:step], with start defaulting to 0, step
> defaulting
> to sys.maxint (which, for all intents and purposes, means the
> end of the
> string), and step defaulting to 1. However, when step is negative,
> start and end switch defaults. So by doing [::-1], you're telling
> Python to return the values of the sequence that can be found
> from the
> end to the start
Cool. Thanks for this explanation.
Christian
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