codeacademy_reverseText.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# encoding: utf-8
"""
Description: reverse text
"""

#
# def reverse(text):
#     word = []
#     rev_word = ''
#     for letter in text:
#         word.insert(0, letter)
#     rev_word = rev_word.join(word)
#
#     return word


#
# def reverse(text):
# >     word = []
# >     rev_word = ""
# >     for letter in text:
# >         word.insert(0, letter)
# >     rev_word = rev_word.join(word)
# >     return rev_word
#
def reverse(text):
    reversestr = []
    for l in range(len(text), 0, -1):
        reversestr.append(text[l-1])
    return "".join(reversestr)

print reverse('Ernest')