[Tutor] Backwards message program

[bob gailer]

On 2/6/2012 2:05 PM, myles broomes wrote:
> Im trying to code a program where the user enters a message and it is 
> returned backwards. Here is my code so far:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> message = input("Enter your message: ")
>
> backw = ""
> counter = len(message)
>
> while message != 0:
>     backw += message[counter-1]
>     counter -= 1
>
> print(backw)
> input("\nPress enter to exit...")
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> I run the program, type in my message but get back the error code:
>
> 'IndexError: String out of range'
>
> I was thinking that maybe the problem is that each time a letter is 
> taken from 'message' and added to 'backw', the length of message 
> becomes a letter shorter
1 - message never changes. Why did you think letters were "taken" from 
it? They are copied.
2 - comparing an integer to a string is always False


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Bob Gailer
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