Stepping backwards in for loop?

[Andrew Dalke]

Carlos Ribeiro wrote:
>It would be a *lot* easier if strings had a reverse method, or if the
>reverse() methods returned the reversed string. However, similarly to
>sort(), the Python-way-of-doing-things must have some good reason for
>reverse() to behave this way (as a inplace operation on the list).

Lists have a reverse method because lists are mutable.
Consider strings as more akin to tuples.  Both are immutable.

                    Andrew
                    dalke at acm.org