Dec 19, 2018 · in this case minus one is equal to the index of the last character which is 3. so firstname[0:-1] will return "ann". in your case it should be changed to firstname[0]. str in the …

The simplest way is mylist[0][0] # get the first character from the first item in the list but mylist[0][:1] # get up to the first character in the first item in the list would also work. You want …

Jul 30, 2012 · I just started learning Python but I'm sort of stuck right now. I have hash.txt file containing thousands of malware hashes in MD5, Sha1 and Sha5 respectively separated by …

Oct 29, 2021 · In general, you can get the characters of a string from i until j with string[i:j]. string[:2] is shorthand for string[0:2]. This works for lists as well. Learn about Python's slice …

Feb 25, 2018 · I want to enter a word from keyboard, put it in a string variable and return first and last letter from the word. But I don't know to to do this. input: "Hello" output: "H", "o" P.S: I want …

Mar 20, 2018 · In Python I have got this string string = "Ľubomír Mezovský" I need to get only first character of it. But when I tried string[0] it returned . When I tried string[:2] it worked well. My …

Aug 31, 2016 · I want to get a new string from the third character to the end of the string, e.g. myString[2:end]. If omitting the second part means 'to the end', and if you omit the first part, …

Feb 9, 2011 · I would like to remove the first character of a string. For example, my string starts with a : and I want to remove that only. There are several occurrences of : in the string that …

Aug 4, 2012 · How might one remove the first x characters from a string? For example, if one had a string lipsum, how would they remove the first 3 characters and get a result of sum?

Feb 19, 2010 · string.find(character) string.index(character) Perhaps you'd like to have a look at the documentation to find out what the difference between the two is.