Dave Angel writes: > Jussi Piitulainen wrote: >> Ian writes: >>> Of course, the simpler way is to use the definition of a >>> Palindrome as the same backwards and forwards. >>> >>> def isPalindrome(pal) >>> return pal == pal.reverse >> >> Agreed. But is there any nicer way to spell .reverse than [::-1] in >> Python? There is .swapcase() but no .reverse(), right? >> > There can't be a .reverse() method on string, because it's > immutable. You could use > > "".join(reversed(pal)) > > but I'd prefer pal[::-1] as I said earlier.
There could easily be a .reverse() method on strings. It would return the reversed string, like .swapcase() returns the swapcased string. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
