Reverse a string without using reversed() or [::-1]?

Question

I came across a strange Codecademy exercise that required a function that would take a string as input and return it in reverse order. The only problem was you could not use

Answer 1

Only been coding Python for a few days, but I feel like this was a fairly clean solution. Create an empty list, loop through each letter in the string and append it to the front of the list, return the joined list as a string.

def reverse(text):
backwardstext = []
for letter in text:
    backwardstext.insert(0, letter)
return ''.join(backwardstext)