Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:06:46 -0600, Larry Bates > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > >> Better was is: >> >> message = raw_input("Enter a message: ") >> print message[::-1] >> > > I sometimes get the feeling a lot of responses to newbies, lately, > fail to explain what was wrong in the original code in favor of showing > off the tricks that Python is capable of...
Several others had already pointed out what was wrong (which of course the OP would have know if he had done a tutorial). I merely wanted to post a solution that IMHO was a much better way to accomplish the task. The OP is free to choose among the posted solutions. If others had not yet posted the solution, I would have posted both. -Larry Bates -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list