Thank you for the clear explanation. Robert
On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 23:40 +0000, ALAN GAULD wrote: > > Is there a significant difference in speed, style, or any pythonesque > > reasoning between Alan's solution and > > print message[::-1] > > > Yes, the for loop doing one character at a time will be much > slower than using a slice. The slice is more pythonic but less general. > A reverse loop is something that is often needed in programming > solutions so it's useful to know how to do it for the general case. > But where the data can be sliced that will be faster and more > concise. > > Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor