How to move the first letter of a word to the end

Question

I need to remove the first letter of a word and move it to the end, for example:

word = 'whatever'
# I want to convert it to 'hateverw'

So far I've tried this:

word[1:] # hatever

But how should I move the first letter to the end?

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 16 '12 at 21:52

14

You could use:

word[1:]+word[0]

answered Oct 16 '12 at 21:52

unutbu

What is this called when you use varaiblename[1:]? I would like to research more about this to find more syntaxing info. – Crutchcorn Jan 15 '16 at 02:03
1

This is called Python [slice notation](http://stackoverflow.com/q/509211/190597), or just [slicing](https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/introduction.html#strings). – unutbu Jan 15 '16 at 02:41

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 03 '15 at 00:27

3

Here is what I did:

wrd = input("Give me a word: ")

pig = wrd[1:] + wrd[0] + "ay"

print(wrd, "in Pig Latin it is:", pig.lower())

edited Nov 03 '15 at 00:27

Jonathan Lam

answered Nov 02 '15 at 23:31

Yehuda Katz

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 03 '20 at 14:41

CODE :

word=input()
print(word[1:]+word[0])

OUTPUT :

>>> oHell
>>> Hello

The code (word [1:0]) prints from the second character till the last.

If you want to write a code to print the first character then write the code as:

a="AbC"
print(a[0])

OUTPUT :

>>> A

Because the index of the string always starts from 0 and not 1.

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