[Tutor] Python backwards program (fwd)

[Danny Yoo]

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[Jim]
>   > The following gives me the last letter of the string.
>   >
>   > backwords=raw_input("enter number or string:")
>   > print backwords[-1]


[Danny]
>   Yes, this is an interesting approach!  We can go along this approach a
>   little more, if you'd like.  The code above is getting the last letter, so
>   we're closer to printing out the word backwards.
>
>   How would you print out the second to last letter of the string?


[Jim]
> To print out the second to the last letter it would be
> backwords[-2]



Yes.  So let's see what we have so far:

######
backwords=raw_input("enter number or string:")
print backwords[-1]
print backwords[-2]
######

This works if the 'backwords' word is two letters long.

So it's a partial solution: we still need to do a little bit to make this
work on any word.