Raj Medhekar wrote: > So I figured out the solution to the missing letter and I will post my > code here. But I still need help figuring out the other stuff (please > see my original message included in this email)! Thanks for putting up > with me. Python is slowly but surely coming to me! I am psyched since > this is the first programming language that I am learning! Thanks all > for the assistance! > > -Raj > > New Code: > # Backward message > # program gets message from user then prints it out backwards > > message = raw_input("Enter your message: ") > > print message > > high = len(message) > low = -len(message) > > begin=None > while begin != "": > begin = int(high) > > if begin: > end = int(low) > > print "Your message backwards is", > print message[::-1] > break > > > raw_input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit") >
All that can be simplified to two lines: message = raw_input("Enter your message: ") print "Your message backwards is", message[::-1] _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor