I am fairly new to python and was wondering how do you get a character in a string based on an index number?
Say I have the string "hello" and index number 3. How do I get it to return the character in that spot, it seems that there is some built in method that I just cant seem to find.
You just need to index the string, just like you do with a list.
>>> 'hello'[3]
l
Note that Python indices (like most other languages) are zero based, so the first element is index 0, the second is index 1, etc.
For example:
>>> 'hello'[0]
h
>>> 'hello'[1]
e
its just straight forward.
str[any subscript]. //e.g. str[0], str[0][0]
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What you need is:
Strings can be subscripted (indexed); like in C, the first character of a string has subscript (index) 0.
There is no separate character type; a character is simply a string of size one.
Like in Icon, substrings can be specified with the slice notation: two indices separated by a colon.
Example:
>>> word[4]
'A'
>>> word[0:2]
'He'
>>> word[2:4]
'lp'
For your case try this:
>>> s = 'hello'
>>> s[3]
'l'
