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Reverse Characters in a String

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Problem

At Slack, a text utility needs to reverse user-provided strings for formatting tests. Write a function that takes a string and returns a new string with its characters in reverse order.

Formal Specification

  • Input: A string s
  • Output: A string containing the characters of s in reverse order

Your solution should handle letters, digits, spaces, punctuation, and Unicode characters as regular characters.

Constraints

  • 0 <= len(s) <= 10^5
  • s may contain letters, digits, spaces, punctuation, and Unicode characters
  • The function must return a new reversed string

Function Signature

def reverse_string(s):
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