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Re: What use for reversed()?

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Date Mon, 1 Jun 2015 13:59:01 +1000
Subject Re: What use for reversed()?
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On 1 June 2015 at 10:30, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> On 01/06/2015 00:23, Tim Delaney wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Will it indeed?  Perhaps fixing the syntax error will get something to
> print :)


Indeed - as Mark is so gently alluding to, I've done the reverse of what I
said - given Python 2.x syntax instead of Python 3.x.

That should have been:

for br in b:
     print(br)

Tim Delaney

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    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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