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

Inspired by Jon's answer, how about this one

word = 'hello'
q = deque(word)
''.join(q.pop() for _ in range(len(word)))