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| -# Tutorial: brief description of tutorial content |
| 2 | +# We're going to look at a few different ways that you can reverse the structure of a string . |
| 3 | +# Let's begin. |
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| -# Code here explaining concept with comments to guide |
| 6 | +# Single Words , A string is an iterable and anything within these --> "" |
| 7 | +# 1. The built-in reverse method |
| 8 | +# This method is used on iterables , commonly on lists and strings |
| 9 | +# Example of functions that reverse a string. |
| 10 | +def reverseString(word): |
| 11 | + reversedWord = "".join(reversed(word)) |
| 12 | + return reversedWord |
| 13 | +''' |
| 14 | +Let's break down what's above: |
| 15 | +Remember that all strings are immutable but iterable. So if that's the case , we can't use the .reverse() function like we could on a list. |
| 16 | +So we iterate through each letter and use the reversed() function . Now since the reversed() function return an iterable;a list . |
| 17 | +We use the join() to concatenate the letters and then we return the reversed String. |
| 18 | +''' |
| 19 | +# 2.The reverse slice method |
| 20 | +# This method also works on iterables too. |
| 21 | +# Let's use the same example with this method too |
| 22 | +def backString(word): |
| 23 | + reversedWord = word[::-1] |
| 24 | + return reversedWord |
| 25 | +''' |
| 26 | +Let's break this down as well: |
| 27 | +The slicing technique is used to get a certain portion of string and using the starting and ending index values. |
| 28 | +e.g [a:b], this slices from position to position before b ; so b-1 . What we don't commonly use is the third option of [a:b:c] <-- C. |
| 29 | +What c does is specify the number of characters to jump or skip over . So if c == 2 , we're gonna skip over 2 characters .But if c == -1,this specifies that the string begins from the back. |
| 30 | +We commonly use -1 when we want the last letter or character in a string e.g word = "pet",word[-1] == t. |
| 31 | +Back to the function , if we don't specify the starting and end values , the computer just assumes it's the whole string . |
| 32 | +So e.g [a:] this is from a to the last , [:b] from the first to b , [a::c] from a to the last every c characters , [:b:c] from the first to b every c characters . |
| 33 | +So [::-1] means from the first to last in reverse . |
| 34 | +''' |
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| 37 | +# The format is the same even for sentences : So write a function that reverses the sentence "I love ketchup". |
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