Python | Get Substring from given string

Python offers different ways to substring a string and is often called as ‘slicing’.

It follows below template:

string[start: end: step]

Where,

start: The starting index of the substring. If start is not mentioned, it is supposed to be equal to 0.

end: The terminating index of the substring. If end is not mentioned,it is default be equal to the length of the string by default.

step:Indicates every ‘step’ character after the current character. The default value is 1.

Example 1:

Below is the code to get the first 5 characters of a string

string = "i2tutorials"
print(string[:5])

Output:

i2tut

Note: print(string[:5]) is same as print(string[0:5]) and provides the same result.

Example 2:

Below is the code to get a substring of length 4 from the 3^rd character of the string

string = “i2tutorials”
print(string[2:6])

Output:

tuto

Example 3:

Below code results the last character of the string

string = "i2tutorials"
print(string[-1])

Output:

s

Example 4:

Code to get the last 5 characters of a string

string = "i2tutorials"
print(string[-5:])

Output:

rials

Example 5:

Below example results a substring which contains all characters except the last 4 characters and the 1st character

string = "i2tutorials"
print(string[1:-4])

Output:

2tutor

Example 6:

Get every other character from a string

string = "i2tutorials"
print(string[::2])

Output:

ittras

Example 7:

Getting substring by picking the element after certain position gap

string = "i2tutorials"
print(string[2:9:2])

Output:

ttra