def reverse_string_by_word(s):
 lst = s.split() # split by blank space by default
 return ' '.join(lst[::-1])

s = 'Power of Love'
print reverse_string_by_word(s)
# Love of Power

s = 'Hello World!'
print reverse_string_by_word(s)
# World! Hello

print reverse_string_by_word(s)
# Expected: !World Hello

>>> import re
>>> s = 'Hello World!'

>>> re.split(r'\s+', s) # will discard blank spaces
['Hello', 'World!']

>>> re.split(r'(\s+)', s) # will keep spaces as a group
['Hello', ' ', 'World!']

>>> s = '< Welcome to EF.COM! >'

>>> re.split(r'\s+', s) # split by spaces
['<', 'Welcome', 'to', 'EF.COM!', '>']

>>> re.split(r'(\w+)', s) # exactly split by word
['< ', 'Welcome', ' ', 'to', ' ', 'EF', '.', 'COM', '! >']

>>> re.split(r'(\s+|\w+)', s) # split by space and word
['<', ' ', '', 'Welcome', '', ' ', '', 'to', '', ' ', '', 'EF', '.', 'COM', '!', ' ', '>']

>>> ''.join(re.split(r'(\s+|\w+)', s)[::-1])
'> !COM.EF to Welcome <'

>>> ''.join(re.split(r'(\s+)', s)[::-1])
'> EF.COM! to Welcome <'

>>> ''.join(re.split(r'(\w+)', s)[::-1])
'! >COM.EF to Welcome< '

>>> ''.join(reversed(re.split(r'(\s+|\w+)', s)))
'> !COM.EF to Welcome <'

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- 
 
#eclipse pydev, python 3.3 
#by C.L.Wang 
#time: 2014. 4. 11 
 
string = 'abcdef' 
 
def string_reverse1(string): 
 return string[::-1] 
 
def string_reverse2(string): 
 t = list(string) 
 l = len(t) 
 for i,j in zip(range(l-1, 0, -1), range(l//2)): 
  t[i], t[j] = t[j], t[i] 
 return "".join(t) 
 
def string_reverse3(string): 
 if len(string) <= 1: 
  return string 
 return string_reverse3(string[1:]) + string[0] 
 
from collections import deque 
def string_reverse4(string): 
 d = deque() 
 d.extendleft(string) 
 return ''.join(d) 
 
def string_reverse5(string): 
 #return ''.join(string[len(string) - i] for i in range(1, len(string)+1)) 
 return ''.join(string[i] for i in range(len(string)-1, -1, -1)) 
 
print(string_reverse1(string)) 
print(string_reverse2(string)) 
print(string_reverse3(string)) 
print(string_reverse4(string)) 
print(string_reverse5(string)) 

fedcba 
fedcba 
fedcba 
fedcba 
fedcba