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<DIV>Hello, I wanted to thank all of you who helped me with the backwards
program. I finally got off my stubborn butt and downloaded 2.4.1 and the
program finally works. That 2.2 was not compatible with the way I was
thinking, or maybe I wasn't compatible with it was thinking who knows.
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<DIV>i = raw_input("Enter a word.")</DIV>
<DIV>print i[::-1]</DIV>
<DIV>raw_input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit.")</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks for allowing me to take some of your precious time.</DIV>
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<DIV>Jim</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=dyoo@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu
href="mailto:dyoo@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu">Danny Yoo</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=jcahl@psci.net
href="mailto:jcahl@psci.net">jcahl@psci.net</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=tutor@python.org
href="mailto:tutor@python.org">Tutor</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 14, 2005 1:52
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Tutor] Python backwards
program (fwd)</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR>> Does the 2.2 python have the ability to do
this?<BR><BR>Hi Jim,<BR><BR>Python 2.2 is actually a bit old; you may want to
update the version of<BR>Python on your system to Python 2.4. You can
find it here:<BR><BR> <A
href="http://www.python.org/2.4/">http://www.python.org/2.4/</A><BR><BR>A lot
of the approaches you were trying earlier used features that were<BR>added in
the 2.3 or 2.4 Python series; they're absent from Python 2.2.<BR><BR><BR>>
The following gives me the last letter of the string.<BR>><BR>>
backwords=raw_input("enter number or string:")<BR>> print
backwords[-1]<BR><BR>Yes, this is an interesting approach! We can go
along this approach a<BR>little more, if you'd like. The code above is
getting the last letter, so<BR>we're closer to printing out the word
backwards.<BR><BR>How would you print out the second to last letter of the
string?<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>