Accessing String Elements

Use square brackets with an index inside to access a particular string element. An index is not a position of a specific element since indexing in Python starts from 0. For example, watch the example below.

As you can see, the index in Python is always less than position by 1.


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# Initial string
site = "codefinity"
# Get the letters 'o' and 'y'
print(site[1], site[9])

To get multiple elements at once, you can use slicing. To do it, pass 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 watch the example below.

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

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