100 Projects in Python - Reverse String alternate answer

Question

Just finished Learn Python the Hard Way and I'm now working on the GitHub 100 Projects for Python.

Let me start by saying that I do understand this is the solution to the reverse a string project:

string = raw_input("> ") 
print "< %r" % string[::-1]

Example: 'Hello string' >>> 'gnirts olleH'

The above program reverses the string from back to front, but what I would like is a reversal in place, so I made this (Which does what I want it to do):

myString = raw_input("> ")

running = True

while running:
    myList = myString.split(' ')
    myList.reverse()
    myNewString = ' '.join(myList)
    print myNewString
    running = False

Example: 'Hello string' >>> 'olleH gnirts"

I am a brutal perfectionist and I am curious if someone knows of an even better way to acheive the same using a For-loop rather than a while-loop? Am I overlooking something obvious? Thank you!

EDIT: I do understand that the while loop here does nothing, thanks for feedback!

Answer 1

Here is one with a for loop

s = 'Hello World'
rev = []
for i in s.split(' '):
    rev.append(i[::-1])

print ' '.join(rev)