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Python Python Basics (2015) Python Data Types Splitting and Joining

Sachin Kanchan
Sachin Kanchan
564 Points
Posted by Sachin Kanchan
Sachin Kanchan
564 Points

LIST SLICING that I came across in Pycharm Edu tutorial. squares = [1, 4, 9, 16, 25] I need to print [4, 9, 16]

Can you use list/string indexing, and slicing to solve this. I am attaching ling to the image. You can find the instruction on the right-hand side, and the code at the center of the image.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tmgxpaw7uboprqz/splicing.JPG?dl=0

1 Answer

David Bottrill
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David Bottrill
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David Bottrill
David Bottrill
Courses Plus Student 10,910 Points

Hi Sachin, if you want to 'slice' a list you simply need to specify the start list element (with the first element starting at zero) and the last element (total number of elements plus one) with a : colon between the two index values. So to specify the middle three elements requires:

print(squares[1:4])