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

Here's my contribution:

def rev(test):  
    test = list(test)
    i = len(test)-1
    result = []

    print test
    while i >= 0:
        result.append(test.pop(i))
        i -= 1
    return "".join(result)