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Is there a function that deletes n chars from the left/right of a string?

Nov 11th, 2003 14:21
Jim Vanderveen, Sam G,

One way to do this is with slices.
>>> s = '1234567'
>>> print s
1234567
>>> # Strip off the rightmost 2 chars
>>> s = s[:-2]
>>> print s
12345
>>> # Strip off the leftmost 2 chars
>>> s = s[2:]
>>> print s
345