06 - Strings II - indicies and substrings.ipynb

Kernel: Python 3 (system-wide)

All of the following exercises use the string "The Chimpanzees of Gombe" stored in the variable title.

title = "The Chimpanzees of Gombe"

Exercise 6.1

1. Print the characters at indicies 10, and -2 in the string.

2. Print the first, and last characters in the string.

print( title[10] )
print( title[-2] )
print( title[0] )
print( title[-1] )

Exercise 6.2

1. Print the characters from indicies 4 to 13 inclusive in the string.

2. Print the 20th to the last characters in the string.

print( title[4:14] )
print( title[19:] )

Exercise 6.3

1. Print every other character in the string.

2. Print the reverse of the string.

print( title[::2] )
print( title[::-1] )