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

Not very clever, but tricky solution

def reverse(t):
    for j in range(len(t) // 2):
        t = t[:j] + t[- j - 1] + t[j + 1:- j - 1] + t[j] + t[len(t) - j:]
    return t