Demel, Jeff wrote: > Ok, let me re-phrase: > > ...[snip]... > I've been programming professionally for over 10 years, and have never > once needed to reverse a string *or detect a palindrome*. Maybe it's a > lack of imagination on my part, but I can't think of a single instance > this might be necessary. > ...[snip]...
I read files backwards all the time. Just for the heck of it. Now, maybe I don't *need* to do this, but I do and I'd like to be able to do so like this: x = open('file_name') print x.read().reverse() *OR* print reverse(x.read()) x.close() To me, that makes sense. Of course, like I said earlier, I think backwards. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list