When you’re using Python strings often in your code, you may face the need to work with them inreverse order. Python includes a few handy tools and techniques that can help you out in these situations. With them, you’ll be able to build reversed copies of existing strings quickly and efficiently.

Knowing about these tools and techniques for reversing strings in Python will help you improve your proficiency as a Python developer.

In this video course, you’ll learn how to:

• Quickly build reversed strings throughslicing
• Createreversed copies of existing strings usingreversed() and.join()
• Useiteration to reverse existing strings manually

To make the most out of this course, you should know the basics ofstrings andfor andwhile loops.

What’s Included:

• 5 Lessons
• Video Subtitles and Full Transcripts
• 2 Downloadable Resources
• Accompanying Text-Based Tutorial
• Q&A With Python Experts: Ask a Question
• Certificate of Completion

Downloadable Resources:

• Course Slides (.pdf)
• Sample Code (.zip)

Reversing Strings in Python

5 Lessons 13m

1. 1. Reversing Strings in Python (Overview)00:31
2. 2. Reversing a String Using a Slice04:34
3. 3. Reversing a String Using reversed()02:18
4. 4. Reversing a String Using a Custom Algorithm04:26
5. 5. Reversing Strings in Python (Summary)01:31

AboutAlexis Drakopoulos

Hi! I am a Machine Learning Engineer passionate about writing clean maintainable code. My interests range from low latency & high performance systems to various areas of applied mathematics such as statistical learning & probabilistic programming.

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