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in thread Five Ways to Reverse a String of Words (C#, Perl 5, Perl 6, Ruby, Haskell)

It is sometimes hard to not use ::-1 once learnt, but you can use reversed which makes it clearer: 
>>> def reverseWords(word):
... 	return " ".join( reversed(word.split()) )
... 
>>> reverseWords("  one   two three four    ")
'four three two one'

- Paddy
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