How to extract the last 2 characters of a variable with substring

Question

I need to extract the last two characters of a phrase, but I don't know how as there isn't a minus 0.

`s[-2:]` works. Note that `s[-1]` *is* the last character in the string, so there is no need for "minus 0" to extract it. — John Coleman, May 07 '20 at 11:06
already answered [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/663171/how-do-i-get-a-substring-of-a-string-in-python) — Achuth Varghese, May 07 '20 at 11:07

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 07 '20 at 11:41

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You can try

a = "abcd"
a[-2:]

output

'cd'

By putting a negative number in a string slicing you will get the number of characters from the end of the string.

edited May 07 '20 at 11:41

Gabio

answered May 07 '20 at 11:06

Leo Arad

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