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September 23rd, 2006

Super Easy Way to Reverse a String in Python

Here’s what I discoved today. To reverse a string in Python you just do:
text[::-1]

It’s that easy! Here is a more filling example:

>>> text='greg'
>>> print text[::-1]
gerg

And finally here is why it works, for the curious.

Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) in Python

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