python - Reverse each word in a string

Question

I am having a small problem in my code. I am trying to reverse the words and the character of a string. For example "the dog ran" would become "ehT god nar"

The code almost works. It just does not add spaces. How would you do that?

def reverseEachWord(str):
  reverseWord=""
  list=str.split()
  for word in list:
    word=word[::-1]
    reverseWord=reverseWord+word+""
  return reverseWord 

Answer 1

You are on the right track. The main issue is that "" is an empty string, not a space (and even if you fix this, you probably don't want a space after the final word).

Here is how you can do this more concisely:

>>> s='The dog ran'
>>> ' '.join(w[::-1] for w in s.split())
'ehT god nar'