On 28 Mar 2006 06:08:51 -0800, Sathyaish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How would you reverse a string "in place" in python? I am seeing that >there are a lot of operations around higher level data structures and >less emphasis on primitive data. I am a little lost and can't find my >way through seeing a rev() or a reverse() or a strRev() function around >a string object. > >I could traverse from end-to-beginning by using extra memory: > >strText = "foo" >strTemp = "" >for chr in strText: > strTemp = chr + strTemp >
This is much slower than strText[::-1] (or any other squence), but which also isn't in-place. In-place operations on strings aren't support. You may want to consider a different datatype if this is important. For example, an array of characters. Jean-Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
