A suggestion for a possible Python module

[phil hunt]

On Sat, 08 Mar 2003 18:26:25 GMT, Mark VandeWettering <wettering at attbi.com> wrote:
>In article
><mXQ8a.138632$UXa.63716 at news02.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>, Lance
>LaDamage 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? 

Homework assignments? Particularly ones to demonstrate recursion? 
E.g.:

def rev(s):
   if s=="": return s
   return s[-1:] + rev(s[:-1])

> I can't
>ever remember doing it even once during 20+ years of programming.

Me neither.

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