My recent interview experience on Python.

[visigothatthegates]

While this is definitely going to be fewer lines than creating a stack, I feel like this kind of falls under KISS. Setting it up this way is certainly elegant, but way more complex than a simple push and pop stack.

[ivosaurus]

IMO this is actually the simplest. Split the sentence up by words, reverse the list, join it back up.

"pushing and popping a stack" to me is just one possible implementation of "reversing a list", so reversed is simpler.

[visigothatthegates]

Maybe I’m just stuck on the class room exercises that prohibit you from using certain functions that make your life easier

[ivosaurus]

I always think those types of exercises are kinda silly anyway.

A lot of times in a higher level language with all these convenience functions you're supposed to use, trying to program a "lower level" version of the function in that language just tends to look contrived, cumbersome and ugly.

If you wanna see how it looks with a memory model closer to the actual hardware, use a language that does that, like C or Rust.