Reverse word order

The problem

Reverse the word in a sentence.

For example, if the input string is “Hello young Programmer”, the output will be “Programmer young Hello”

Hints

There are two methods that you can call on a string. One is called split(). If you don’t pass any parameter to this function, it will split the string by whitespace.

The opposite of split is join. You can write what you want to join string by. And then pass the array to it.

For example, if you want to join a list elements by whitespace, you can write the whitespace and then join like bellow

str ='Hello young Programmer'
words = str.split()
print(words)

together = ' '.join(words)
print(together)

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Solution

def reverse_words(sentence):
   words = sentence.split()
   words.reverse()
   return " ".join(words)
 
usr_input = input("Enter a sentence: ")
reverse = reverse_words(usr_input)
print('Reversed words are: ', reverse)

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Explanation

Once you understand the split and the join method, this code should become super easy for you.

If you have any confusion, let us know.

Quiz

What is the purpose of the split method on a string?

1. Breakdown string into elements of a list
2. Split the string if it has no whitespace
3. Adds some splitting characteristics

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The answer is: 1

Quiz

How would you split a string by the character a?

1. str.split()
2. str.split(“ ”)
3. str.split(‘a’)

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The answer is: 3

Quiz

How would you join each string in the words list by the hyphen(-)?

1. words.join(“-”)
2. words.split(“-”)
3. “-”.join(words)

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The answer is: 3

Reverse domain

Let’s say, you have the website name www.programming-hero.com

Now you want to reverse the domain name: com.programming-hero.www

site='www.programming-hero.com'
parts = site.split('.')
parts.reverse()
rev =  '.'.join(parts)
print(rev)

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site='www.programming-hero.com'
rev = '.'.join(reversed(site.split('.')))
print(rev)

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take Away

The split method breaks string into elements of a list.

   

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