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])

n
b
T
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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[4:13])
print(title[20:])

Chimpanze
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Exercise 6.3

1. Print every other character in the string.

2. Print the reverse of the string.

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

TeCipneso ob
ebmoG fo seeznapmihC ehT