Paul Rubin writes: > Ian writes: > > On 27/08/2010 21:51, Jussi Piitulainen wrote: > >> Meanwhile, I have decided to prefer this: > >> > >> def palindromep(s): > >> def reversed(s): > >> return s[::-1] > >> return s == reversed(s) > > I like this. > > s[::-1] is obscure and non-obvious, especially to Python noobs. > > Overriding the 'reversed' builtin even in an inner scope is a little > bit ugly. > > If you don't mind some overhead, list(s)==list(reversed(s)) (using > the built-in reversed, not the special obscure one) is pretty clear.
Thanks for that. I'm beginning to like it - not its overhead but certainly its natural clarity. It wins over ''.join(reversed(s)) easily, in my eyes. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
