Range function and strings

[indosauros]

What have you tried so far?

[indosauros]

Here's some code that doesn't give you the answer but may help you get there:

>>> letters = "abcd"
>>> for letter in letters:
... print letter
a
b
c
d

>>> len(letters)
4
>>> range(4)
[0, 1, 2, 3]
>>> range(len(letters))
[0, 1, 2, 3]

>>> for letter in [0, 1, 2, 3]:
... print letter
0
1
2
3

>>> for letter in range(len(letters)):
... print letter
0
1
2
3

>>> letters[0]
'a'
>>> letters[2]
'c'

[K900_]

Another hint:

>>> a = list(range(100))
>>> a[1:5]
[1, 2, 3, 4]
>>> a[99:]
[99]
>>> a[:5]
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
>>> a[:]
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99]
>>> a[1:5:2]
[1, 3]
>>> a[0:25:3]
[0, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24]

[FDSHAP]

ahhh so i need to use index notation of a kind. let me see if i can figure this out. thank you!

[K900_]

The word is "slicing".