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Re: What use for reversed()?

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On 1 June 2015 at 05:40, fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a string b='1234'. I run: br=reversed(b)
>
> I hope that I can print out '4321' by:
>
> for br in b
>
> but it complains:
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>

Any time you get a SyntaxError, it means that you have coded something
which does not match the specified syntax of the language version.

Assuming you copied and pasted the above, I can see an error:

    for br in b

The for statement must have a colon at the end of line e.g. a complete for
statement and block is:

for br in b:
    print br

This will output the characters one per line (on Python 3.x), since that is
what the reversed() iterator will return. You will need to do something
else to get it back to a single string.

Have you read through the python tutorials?

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/

or for Python 2.x:

https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/

Tim Delaney

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What use for reversed()? fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2015-05-31 12:40 -0700
  Re: What use for reversed()? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-05-31 19:58 +0000
    Re: What use for reversed()? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-05-31 18:06 -0600
  Re: What use for reversed()? cheshire <supportNOSPAM@microsoft.com> - 2015-05-31 23:26 +0200
  Re: What use for reversed()? Tim Delaney <timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com> - 2015-06-01 09:23 +1000
    Re: What use for reversed()? fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2015-05-31 20:11 -0700
  Re: What use for reversed()? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-06-01 01:30 +0100
  Re: What use for reversed()? Tim Delaney <timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com> - 2015-06-01 13:59 +1000
  Re: What use for reversed()? fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2015-05-31 22:15 -0700
    Re: What use for reversed()? Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2015-06-01 09:11 +0300

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