quarantine 'em

def rec_rev(word): if len(word) == 1 or len(word) == 0: return word else: return "{}{}{}".format(word[-1], rec_rev(word[1:-1]), word[0])

def swap_reverse(word): for i in range(int(len(word) / 2) ): first = word[:i] + word[-i-1] middle = word[i+1:-i-1] last = word[i] + int(bool(i)) * word[-i:] word = first + middle + last return word

the way we determine the value of last has a special case for i=0, which is why we only add that part if i is truthy

import random def babystep_reverse(word): out = "" while word: next = random.randint(0, len(word)-1) if next == len(word) - 1: out += word[next] word = word[:next] return out