[Tutor] Hi

[Danny Yoo]

> I am new to python and I am going through the URL
> http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/index.htm, At the moment I am going
> through the Chapter 7 Strings, I am stuck with understanding slice which
> is a part of a String, I am not able to understand how it functions

Hello,


A "slice" takes a string and returns a "substring" of that string.  For
example, if we have a string like:

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>>> mystring = "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"
######

then we can select different portions of the string by indicating the
start and end positions.  For example, the first ten characters of
mystring can be extracted using a slice:

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>>> mystring[0:10]
'supercalif'
######


Is this what you are confused about?

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