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Fastest way to "increase" a string of digits
Thanks again, Eric! But seems a slight misunderstanding goes here. Of course I'm not going to mute the immutable strings, but only their copies... To clear the whole thing, this is where my "trouble" origins from: http://spoj.sphere.pl/problems/PALIN/ I'm just trying to advocate for Python... -
Fastest way to "increase" a string of digits
Given a very long (e.g. len()=10^12) string of digits: e.g., s='23426994030208483858........38838299459942' What I need is just to increase by 1 this string-number: '12347'+'1'='12348'. (Note the "terrible" case: '9999'+'1'='10000') But seems that s=str(long(s)+1) is quite expensive way to... -
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How to reverse a plain string?
I can't find anything for the subject. Need something like this: s='qwerty' s=s.reverse() print s ytrewq >>>
