Creating a new string using index

Asked Jun 12 '21 at 00:34

Active Jun 12 '21 at 00:36

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Doing a python problem and trying to create a new string that omits a single char at index n. This works:

newstr = str[:n] + str[n+1:]

but wondering why this didn't work:

newstr = str[:n] + str[-1:-(n+1)]

Thanks in advance^

edited Jun 12 '21 at 00:36

Avinash Raj

asked Jun 12 '21 at 00:34

4life2be

Your slice limits are inverted. – Prune Jun 12 '21 at 00:37
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For future posts, please provide the expected [MRE - Minimal, Reproducible Example](https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example). "didnt' work" is not a problem specification, and your posted code doesn't run. – Prune Jun 12 '21 at 00:37

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