Is this an accurate way of reversing a string in python?

Question

I just want to know if this is a good way or not.

Input_str = "random Str"
Output_str = ""

for i in range(len(Input_str)+1):
      if i == 0: continue
      Output_str += Input_str[-i]

print(Output_str)

if you want to test your working code you can ask here : https://codereview.stackexchange.com/tour — Deadlooks, Aug 04 '22 at 11:10
It was answered here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/931092/reverse-a-string-in-python — Ivan Sidaruk, Aug 04 '22 at 11:26
Does this answer your question? [Reverse a string in Python](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/931092/reverse-a-string-in-python) — Ivan Sidaruk, Aug 04 '22 at 11:27

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 04 '22 at 11:05

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To quickly reverse a string use the following code:

string = "string"
string[::-1]
>>> gnirts

It takes the entire string and iterates reversely over it .

answered Aug 04 '22 at 11:05

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 04 '22 at 11:06

There is a better and more pythonistic way to do this (although your code works just fine).

output_str = input_str[::-1]

This will pretty much do exactly what your code does - it will iterate from the end of the string towards the front and save that reversed string into the new variable.

You can read more about this syntax called string slicing here.

Is this an accurate way of reversing a string in python?

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