I discovered something about your revers word program here. I used the "for c in word" one. if you type an indented print after print c, then it will print the words vertically. Just thought I'd share that with you.
On 6/10/07, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Hamilton wrote: > > I just finished doing an exercise in a tutorial on the range function > > and while I got it to work, my answer seems ugly. I'm wondering if I'm > > missing something in the way I'm using the range function. > > The tutorial ask me to print a string backwards. My solution works, but > > it it just doesn't "feel" right :). My result is difficult to read and > > I feel like I'm probably over complicating the solution. Suggestions? > > > > word="reverse" > > #Start at the end of the string, count back to the start, printing each > > letter > > for i in range(len(word)-1,-1,-1): > > print word[i], > > That's probably the best you can do using range(). You could write > ln = len(word) > for i in range(ln): > print word[ln-i-1], > > but that is not much different. > > You can do better without using range; you can directly iterate the > letters in reverse: > > for c in word[::-1]: > print c, > > Kent > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor