How do you get the last 5 letters of a string in python?

I have the following string: "aaaabbbb"

How can I get the last four characters and store them in a string using Python?

Anders

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asked Nov 2, 2011 at 16:27

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Like this:

>>> mystr = "abcdefghijkl"
>>> mystr[-4:]
'ijkl'

This slices the string's last 4 characters. The -4 starts the range from the string's end. A modified expression with [:-4] removes the same 4 characters from the end of the string:

>>> mystr[:-4]
'abcdefgh'

For more information on slicing see this Stack Overflow answer.

answered Nov 2, 2011 at 16:29

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In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to get the last n characters of a string in Python.

Consider, we have the following string:

Getting the last n characters

To access the last n characters of a string in Python, we can use the subscript syntax [ ] by passing -n: as an argument to it.

-n is the number of characters we need to extract from the end position of a string.

Here is an example, that gets the last 4 characters from a string.

str = "abcdef"

lastFour = str[-4:] # getting the last 4 characters
print[lastFour]

Output:

You can also read, how to get first n characters of a string in Python.

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