Write a program (using functions!) that asks the user for a long string containing multiple words. Print back to the user the same string, except with the words in backwards order. For example, say I type the string:
My name is Michele
Then I would see the string:
Michele is name My
shown back to me.
Concepts for this week:
Python has a lot of interesting things you can do with strings. I will show a few here, but you can see many more methods that may or may not be useful at the official Python documentation about the string format.
Remember that strings are lists.
You can “split” or tear apart strings based on a given set of characters. For example:
teststring = "this is a test"
result = teststring.split("t")
And at the end, result
will contain the list:
['', 'his is a ', 'es', '']
Instead of "t"
, you can write any character you want. If you do not include any character, it means “split on all whitespace”:
teststring = " this has a lot of spaces and tabs"
result = testring.split()
Then result
contains:
['this', 'has', 'a', 'lot', 'of', 'spaces', 'and', 'tabs']
You can also relatively easily “join” or “smush” strings together:
listofstrings = ['a', 'b', 'c']
result = "**".join(listofstrings)
Then result
will contain the string:
a**b**c
Take a look at the official Python documentation for more information.