Accessing the second half of a string in a pythonic way

Asked Oct 31 '20 at 13:58

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I have a set of strings of variable length. They all have identical characters at the start and different characters at the end.

a1="I went to the shop"
a2="I went to the wishing well"

I want to access the varying characters at the end. The most intuitive way of doing this is

a1[14:-1]

which gives the string "sho".

I could get the whole word by doing

a1[14:len(a1)]

however this doesn't feel very pythonic.

What is the pythonic way of doing this?

edited Oct 31 '20 at 14:11

flaxel

asked Oct 31 '20 at 13:58

Abijah

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BTW, you can use `a1[14:]`... is this pythonic enough? – Anwarvic Oct 31 '20 at 14:01
thanks, I'm new to python - that looks great! – Abijah Oct 31 '20 at 14:10
Cool, glad I could help :) – Anwarvic Oct 31 '20 at 14:11
Or more general: `a1[len(a1)/2:]` if you want. – creyD Oct 31 '20 at 14:14

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