[Tutor] Help Needed

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Tue Jun 16 01:57:00 CEST 2009


"Raj Medhekar" <cosmicsand27 at yahoo.com> wrote

>I am looking to build a program that gets a message from 
> the user and then prints it backward. I 've been at it for 
> hours now but I can't seem to figure it out. 

So tell us what you re thinking? How would you solve 
it manually?

> I've been having trouble trying to index the message 
> so I can print it out backwards. 

You can index the characters of a string in Python exactly 
as you do a list.

> I would've posted my code but I really haven't gotten 
> past the  'raw_input("Enter a message: ")' command line.  

Its always better to try something even if its wrong, it lets us 
see where your thinking is going adrift. Or at least describe 
what you'd like to do conceptually.

Alan G.



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