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
