Reversing a string

[Martin Durkin]

aleax at mac.com (Alex Martelli) wrote in
news:1i0pz5v.eftrpfbeilzpN%aleax at mac.com: 

> Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
>> I would agree with people who claim
>> that you should memorize most of the built-in functions (which is
>> precisely why there is a high barrier to adding more built-in
>> functions). 
> 
> I think the built-in functions and types a beginner is likely to need
> are a "fuzzy subset" (the decision of whether to include or exclude
> something being not really obvious:-) roughly including:
> 
> abs all any bool chr cmp dict dir enumerate float getattr help hex int
> iter len list max min object open ord property raw_input reversed set
> sorted str sum tuple unichr unicode xrange zip
> 

Thanks guys, that is helpful.