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[Christian Witts]

Lucas Prado Melo wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:09 PM, shellcom3 at juno.com 
> <mailto:shellcom3 at juno.com> <shellcom3 at juno.com 
> <mailto:shellcom3 at juno.com>> wrote:
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>     I,m trying to get a phrase from a user and print it backwards
>     using the for statement along with the range function, but all I
>     get with range function is integers not alpha. example range(-1)
>     does not work.
>
> What about range(0, -n, -1) ?
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That would need to have a starting value of -1 and an end value of 
-(len(phrase)+1).  Of else you can start at length - 1, end at zero and 
a step value of -1.

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Christian Witts