How to print each element of a list until a certain length Python

Question

How to print each element of my list to a defined length (5), so for example:

myList = ["abcdefgh", "ijklmnop"]

The output I'm looking for is:

abcde
ijklm

I've tried this (printing dates from an excel sheet):

i = 2
x =0
while i < maxR:
    valuesItems =  wb0["C" + str(rowList[i])].value
    itemDate.append(valuesItems)
    print(len(itemDate[x]))
    i = i+1
    x = x+1

But this prints "19" multiple times (the length of each element, not the element itself)

The operation is called "slicing". This answer is in relation to slicing lists, but slicing strings as you're showing works the same way: https://stackoverflow.com/a/509295/6030926 — picobit, Nov 01 '22 at 19:31

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 01 '22 at 19:29

4

for element in myList:
    print(element[:5])

answered Nov 01 '22 at 19:29

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