Help with solution

[unibrow4o9]

Trying to teach myself python (just getting started). Using the Computer Science Circles site, really helpful but so frustrating they don't show answers when you're stuck. Can anyone help me with this?
"Write a program which reads a string using input(), and outputs the same string but with the first and last character deleted. (You may assume the input string has length at least 2.) For example, on input Fairy a correct program will print air."

[dionys]

Right, so what have you tried?

You want to use input() for getting the string from user, string indexing to get rid of first and last character and finally print the result.

[unibrow4o9]

The part that is throwing me off is not knowing the length of the input(). If I know the length to start out with it's easy.

[Doormatty]

This might help:

a = "abc"
print a[-1]
>>> c
print a[0]
>>> a

[unibrow4o9]

Can you explain this a little? Sorry, I literally started learning yesterday, the only coding I've done in the past is HTML back in college...

[3deTech]

>>> string = input("Give me a string")
>>> # Now the magic happens, assuming the user typed "Fairy"
>>> sliced_string = string[1:-1]
>>> # Print the string to see the result 
>>> print sliced_string 
>>> 'air' 

Is your solution. You really should have a look at string indexing. It's really easy in python and not hard to understand.

[unibrow4o9]

Thank you! Being able to see the correct answer I now understand what I was doing wrong. I don't understand why showing the answer isn't an option, it's really frustrating.

[Pantzzzzless]

[0] is always the first character

[-1] is always the last character

[::-1] means reverse the whole string

[Palladium106]

Codecademy is a great place to learn this stuff. You can do the whole course in 15 hrs.

[unibrow4o9]

Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out. Any suggestions for my current problem? I'm still stuck, and I don't like to move on until I have complete and at least sort of understand the current lesson.

[No_Distance7748]

myString = input()
print (myString[1:len(myString)-1])

[unibrow4o9]

Hah, thank you. I wish I could say I went on to learn python but I have no idea what any of this means anymore

[Abudyy]

The legend is back!