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

Today I was asked this same exercise on pen&paper, so I come up with this function for lists:

def rev(s):
  l = len(s)
  for i,j in zip(range(l-1, 0, -1), range(l//2)):
    s[i], s[j] = s[j], s[i]
  return s

which can be used with strings with "".join(rev(list("hello")))