Summary  
This chapter covers string slicing in Python, showing how to extract substrings from a string using start and end indices in slice notation.

General domain of usage  
text processing

Sometimes you  need to retrieve multiple elements from a text. This is where slicing comes in handy. Slicing allows us to access a range of elements without modifying the original sequence.  To retrieve multiple characters at once, use square brackets (`[]`) and a colon (`:`) to specify the **start** and **end** indices.

The **end position is always one more than the last character's index you want to include**. In the example above, there are **10 positions**, but the final index is **9**.

# Initial strings
platform_name = "codefinity"
greeting_message = "How are you"

# Slice strings to extract substrings
# Spaces count as characters and have their own indices
print(platform_name[0:4], platform_name[6:10])
print(greeting_message[2:5], greeting_message[6:11])

You are given the string `"Python"` stored in the `language` variable, extract the substrings `"tho"` and `"on"`. The indices for this string are shown below.

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String Slicing in Python