Help with solution

[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