A suggestion for a possible Python module

[Thomas Wouters]

On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 06:26:25PM +0000, Mark VandeWettering wrote:

> > I have noticed that there is one thing that everyone wishes to do in Python
> > ... reverse a string. 

> Really?  Whatever for?
> Honestly, what commonly programmed task requires string reversal?  I can't
> ever remember doing it even once during 20+ years of programming.

Well, if you want to, say, index a list of email addresses or hostnames with
btree, and you want to be able to efficiently match domain-parts, reversing
the string is useful. If I were doing such a thing, I would do it all the
time. :)

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Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net>

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