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

I used this:

def reverse(text):
s=""
l=len(text)
for i in range(l):
    s+=text[l-1-i]
return s