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Get the last 4 characters of a string

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00:55 Answer 2 (Score 81)
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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7983...

Accepted answer links:
[slices]: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expr...
[this Stack Overflow answer]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/509295/81170...

Answer 2 links:
http://codepad.org/S3zjnKoD

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 1058


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.




ANSWER 2

Score 86


str = "aaaaabbbb"
newstr = str[-4:]

See : http://codepad.org/S3zjnKoD