On 5/23/2018 5:56 PM, Rob Gaddi wrote: > On 05/23/2018 02:51 PM, asa32sd23 at gmail.com wrote: >> s = "kitti" >> >> 0,1,2,3,4 >> k,i,t,t,i >> >> how do i retrieve '4'. i know i can do a len(s)-1, Use -1, which is the same as len(s)-1 but faster. >>> s = 'kitty' >>> s[len(s)-1] 'y' >>> s[-1] 'y' -- Terry Jan Reedy