[Tutor] Re: reverse a number (was no subject)

Lance E Sloan lsloan@umich.edu
Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:36:08 -0400


--On Thursday, August 22, 2002 11:05 AM -0500 Christopher Smith 
<csmith@blakeschool.org> wrote:
>-- Lance E Sloan <lsloan@umich.edu> wrote:
>># There's probably a more clever way to do this part.
>> newnumString = ''
>> for n in numString:
>>  newnumString = n + newnumString
>
> How about converting the number to a list and then reversing the elements
> now:
>
> 	m=list(str(int(number)))
> 	m.reverse()
> 	numString=''.join(m) #this is your reversed number as a string

Thanks!  That's exactly what I was trying to think of.  I thought it was a 
string method.

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