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Good, now you know how to extract a single element from a string. But what if you need to get multiple sequential elements at once? Indeed, you can extract these elements one by one, but it's a bit irrational, isn't it?

Surely it is. To get multiple elements at once, you can use slicing. To do so, pass the starting and ending indices within square brackets divided by the colon : sign. Note that the second index will not be included. For example, if you use [1:5], you will get all the elements with indices from 1 to 4. You can look at the example below.

As you can see, the last index is greater than the index of the last element by 1.

You are given the string "Python" stored within the language variable. You need to get the following fragments using slicing: tho, on. For your convenience, the indices for this string are shown below.

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Fill in the blanks to complete the task.

# Initial variable
language = "Python"
# Output the string parts
print(language[:])
print(language[
:])
tho
on

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Good, now you know how to extract a single element from a string. But what if you need to get multiple sequential elements at once? Indeed, you can extract these elements one by one, but it's a bit irrational, isn't it?

Surely it is. To get multiple elements at once, you can use slicing. To do so, pass the starting and ending indices within square brackets divided by the colon : sign. Note that the second index will not be included. For example, if you use [1:5], you will get all the elements with indices from 1 to 4. You can look at the example below.

As you can see, the last index is greater than the index of the last element by 1.

You are given the string "Python" stored within the language variable. You need to get the following fragments using slicing: tho, on. For your convenience, the indices for this string are shown below.

question-icon

Fill in the blanks to complete the task.

# Initial variable
language = "Python"
# Output the string parts
print(language[:])
print(language[
:])
tho
on

Click or drag`n`drop items and fill in the blanks

Everything was clear?

How can we improve it?

Thanks for your feedback!

SectionΒ 3. ChapterΒ 8
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