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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

>>> 'ihgfedcba'

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

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 at
http://docs.python.org/release/2.3.5...on-slices.html

Dan

On Apr 20, 1:01*pm, Dan M <catd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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