mystery string code - help!

[Uncle Ben]

I found this in one of the online cookbooks:

#Raghunath Reddy Peesari 6 years, 3 months ago # | flag
#There is more simple way. ###

a = 'abcdefghi'
a = a[::-1]

print a

As a newbie Pythoner, I understand [] -1]
but would some tell me how '::' does its magic?

Uncle Ben

 

[Dan M]

As a newbie Pythoner, I understand [] -1] but would some tell me how

'::' does its magic?

Uncle Ben

The -1 is the "stride" or "step" argument. It's described at
http://docs.python.org/release/2.3.5/whatsnew/section-slices.html

Dan

 

[Uncle Ben]

As a newbie Pythoner, I understand [] -1] but would some tell me how
'::' does its magic?

Uncle Ben

The -1 is the "stride" or "step" argument. It's described athttp://docs.python.org/release/2.3.5/whatsnew/section-slices.html

Dan

Very helpful!

Ben