"Adam Urbas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >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.
You can achieve the same by missing out the comma at the end of the print statement too. The comma suppresses a newline character. By using a second print you put it back! So just missing the comma achieves the same end result. Alan G. > 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 > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor