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 last line is completely unnecessary. str is used for converting …

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 to end after the first character (character zero), not start after the first character (character zero), which is what the code in your question means.

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 delimiters in each line. ...

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 notation at the official tutorial

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 to pu...

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 question...

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, does it start fro...

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 shouldn't be removed. I am writing my code in Python.

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.