[Tutor] Help needed

[ayyaz]

Raj Medhekar wrote:
> So I figured out the solution to the missing letter and I will post my 
> code here. But I still need help figuring out the other stuff (please 
> see my original message included in this email)! Thanks for putting up 
> with me. Python is slowly but surely coming to me! I am psyched since 
> this is the first programming language that I am learning! Thanks all 
> for the assistance!
> 
> -Raj
> 
> New Code:
> # Backward message
> # program gets message from user then prints it out backwards
> 
> message = raw_input("Enter your message: ")
> 
> print message
> 
> high = len(message)
> low = -len(message)
> 
> begin=None
> while begin != "":
>     begin = int(high)
> 
>     if begin:
>         end = int(low)
> 
>         print "Your message backwards is",
>         print message[::-1]
>         break
> 
> 
> raw_input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit")
> 
> 
> My Original message:
> 
> I had previously emailed y'all regarding inverting a message input by 
> the user of the program backwards. After much contemplation on your 
> earlier replies I came up with the code I have included in this email. 
> The problem I am having with this code is that the the first character 
> of the message that is reversed does not come up. Is there a solution to 
> this? For my message that I input I used "take this" to test it, use the 
> same message when the program prompts you to enter the message and run 
> it, you'll see what I mean. Also is there a way to say reverse the 
> string in a way so the reversed string would result to "this take" if 
> you use my example? And is there a way to stop the loop without the use 
> of break? Thanks for the help!
> 
> Peace,
> Raj
> 
> My Code:
> 
> # Backward message
> # program gets message from user then prints it out backwards
> 
> message = raw_input("Enter your message: ")
> 
> print message
> 
> high = len(message)
> low = -len(message)
> 
> begin=None
> while begin != "":
>     begin = int(high)
> 
>     if begin:
>         end = int(low)
> 
>         print "Your message backwards is",
>         print message[begin:end:-1]
>         break
> 
> 
> raw_input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit")
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Tutor maillist  -  Tutor at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Hello,

The following works also.

msg = raw_input("\nPlease enter a message to print backwards: ")
x = range(0,len(msg))
x.reverse()
for i in x: print msg[i],

--ayyaz