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LESSON 9
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Strings & Substrings
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Substrings

Often, we only need a specific portion of the string stored in a str variable, and Python comes to our aid! Similar to accessing a single character in the string, by using indices and the colon operator ":", we can easily obtain a substring:

string[start_index : end_index[ : step]]

EXAMPLES

Note! The last character specified by the index is not included!

We displayed the characters from indices 3 to 8, then from 15 to 20 (write the last desired index, +1):



(translation in English: "There is snow in Sinaia!")
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DETAILS

The variable s2 holds the string "Sinaia", then the string s3 holds the first three characters, namely "Sin", which we display along with the rest of the print() function content, with the default space separator:



If we choose the step -1 and leave the other attributes empty (s1[::-1]), the string will be displayed from right to left (its reverse):

Run the program, then proceed to the next page.
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