Eric McGraw wrote: >>Well, it turns out to be the best way to invert a string, IMO. The >>reversed() feature returns a reversed object... not a reversed string. >>In short, I have to fool with it again _after_ it has been inverted. The >>slicing takes care of the job right away and gives me what I want... no >>Computer Sciencey <reversed object at 0xb6f6152c>> to deal with :) > > > A <reversed object> can be turned back into a string: > >>> st = '0123456789' > >>> reversed(st) > <reversed object at 0x00A8CC50> > >>> ''.join( reversed(st) ) > '9876543210'
But that's slower than new_s = s[::-1] Cheers, Carl. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
