Given a string S, containing special characters and all the alphabets, reverse the string without affecting the positions of the special characters.

flip-string-without-specials.py

import location
import os 

#Given a string S, containing special characters and all the alphabets, reverse the string without affecting the positions of the special characters.

def flipString(theString):

  holdThese = ""
  listChars = list(theString)

  for char in listChars:
    if char.isalpha():
      holdThese = char + holdThese

  print("Flipped order: ", holdThese)
  for idx, char in enumerate(listChars):
    if char.isalpha():
      listChars[idx] = holdThese[0]
      holdThese = holdThese[1:]

  print(holdThese)
  print("".join(listChars))
  

flipString("abc%sld*")