Jay Loden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > For what it's worth, with python 2.5 on my Macbook:
Hmmm, doesn't look to me as if it's worth much...: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] jloden]$ python -m timeit 's = "onomatopoeia"; s = s.join(s[::-1])' since what you're doing is...: >>> s = "onomatopoeia" >>> s = s.join(s[::-1]) >>> s 'aonomatopoeiaionomatopoeiaeonomatopoeiaoonomatopoeiaponomatopoeiaoonoma topoeiatonomatopoeiaaonomatopoeiamonomatopoeiaoonomatopoeianonomatopoeia o' >>> ...which isn't really just reversing the string, but quite a bit more work!-) Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
