String Manipulation Coding | Dataford Interview Questions

Stonex Group displays short text labels whose words occasionally need character-level reversal for a formatting operation. Given a string, reverse the characters in every word while preserving the original word order and the single spaces between words.

Formal Specification

Implement reverse_words(text).

Input: text, a non-empty string containing one or more words separated by exactly one space.
Output: A string with each individual word reversed. The number and positions of spaces must remain unchanged.
Words contain printable non-space characters. Do not reverse the order of the words.

Constraints

1 <= len(text) <= 10^4
text contains no leading or trailing spaces
Words are separated by exactly one space
The input contains at least one word

Function Signature

def reverse_words(text):

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