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0 pointswting13y ago0 comments

`reversed(s)` returns an iterator. The much slower equivalent of `s[::-1]` is `''.join(reversed(s))`.

It's odd how Python has list.reverse() but not str.reverse(). Probably a conscious design decision sometime ago.

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ot13y ago

list is mutable while str is not. So reverse() should return a new copy, but it would duplicate the functionality of s[::-1] (which is quite idiomatic, although a bit obscure)

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