What is the simplest way to swap each pair of adjoining chars in a string with Python?

Question

I want to swap each pair of characters in a string. \'2143\' becomes \'1234\', \'badcfe\' becomes \'abcdef\'.

How

Answer 1

#Works on even/odd size strings
str = '2143657'
newStr = ''
for i in range(len(str)//2):
    newStr += str[i*2+1] + str[i*2]
if len(str)%2 != 0:
    newStr += str[-1]
print(newStr)