[Python-Dev] A Horrible Inconsistency
Fred L. Drake, Jr.
fdrake at acm.org
Fri May 26 18:00:44 CEST 2006
On Friday 26 May 2006 11:50, Georg Brandl wrote:
> This is actually a nice idea, because it's even a more nonintuitive
> answer for Python newbies posting to c.l.py asking how to reverse
> a string <wink>
Even better:
"123"*-1
We'd get to explain:
- what the "*-" operator is all about, and
- why we'd use it with a string and an int.
I see possibilities here. :-)
-Fred
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