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8 changes: 4 additions & 4 deletions strings/reverse_letters.py
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def reverse_letters(sentence: str, length: int = 0) -> str:
"""
Reverse all words that are longer than the given length of characters in a sentence.
If unspecified, length is taken as 0
"""Reverse all words longer than a given character length in a sentence.

If ``length`` is not specified, it defaults to 0.

>>> reverse_letters("Hey wollef sroirraw", 3)
'Hey fellow warriors'
Expand All @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ def reverse_letters(sentence: str, length: int = 0) -> str:
'racecar'
"""
return " ".join(
"".join(word[::-1]) if len(word) > length else word for word in sentence.split()
word[::-1] if len(word) > length else word for word in sentence.split()
)


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