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String Slicing

Extracting substrings

Slicing extracts a portion of a string using [start:end]:

text = "Hello World"
print(text[0:5])   # "Hello"
print(text[6:11])  # "World"
print(text[:5])    # "Hello" (start defaults to 0)
print(text[6:])    # "World" (end defaults to length)

The end index is exclusive. text[0:5] gets characters $0$ , $1$ , $2$ , $3$ , $4$ but not $5$ .

You can also add a step: text[::2] gets every second character. text[::-1] reverses the string. Slicing never raises index errors. It just gives you what's available within the range.