Reverse Characters in a String | Dataford Interview Questions

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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