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I like the replace method. It's a great way of doing the same thing. I considered using the [::-1] syntax to reverse the list, but decided that there was enoug

• d0mine 11y ago
  [::-1] is an idiomatic way to reverse a string in Python that is the obvious way for a habitual user of the language to do it e.g.: def palindrome(s): return s == s[::-1] It could be discussed whether ''.join(reversed(s)) is more readable for a novice programmer learning Python. In general, Python prefers words over punctuation. Also, there are objects that can be reversed() that are not sequences. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/931092/reverse-a-string-in-python http://stackoverflow.com/questions/931092/reverse-a-string-i...