Practice Accessing Characters By Position (6.3.1) - Strings - Part A - Data Structures and Algorithms in Python
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Accessing Characters by Position

Practice - Accessing Characters by Position

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is the index of the character 'r' in the string 'Python'?

💡 Hint: Count from 0.

Question 2 Easy

Using the string 'hello', what character is at index 1?

💡 Hint: Think about the first character.

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Question 1

What is indexing in Python?

💡 Hint: It starts from zero.

Question 2

In Python, what will s[-2] return if s = 'hello'?

h
e
l
o

💡 Hint: Count backwards from 'o'.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Given the string text = 'understanding', write code that returns the substring from index 2 to -3.

💡 Hint: Think about how to extract using both positive and negative indices.

Challenge 2 Hard

Concatenate the strings greet = 'Hello' and name = 'Alice' such that it outputs 'Hello, Alice!'. Write the code to achieve this.

💡 Hint: Remember to include spaces and punctuation when joining.

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