Negative Indices numbers: start counting from the right : String Slice « String « Python

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Python » String » String Slice Screenshots  Negative Indices numbers: start counting from the right word = "Hello world" print word[-1]     # The last character print word[-2]     # The last-but-one character print word[-2:]    # The last two characters print word[:-2]    # Everything except the last two characters                     Related examples in the same category 1. String slicing: extrace section 2. String Slice 3. Strings can be subscripted (indexed) 4. An invariant of slice operations: s[:i] + s[i:] equals s 5. Degenerate slice indices