Get the last 4 characters of a string

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00:00 Get The Last 4 Characters Of A String
00:15 Accepted Answer Score 1058
00:41 Answer 2 Score 86
00:48 Thank you

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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