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I'm really new to Python and programming in general, so I've been stuck for a while trying to figure out through searching the internet how to print a string to a length determined by a variable. This is one of the things I tried, for an example of what I'm attempting to do:

var1 = 6 string1 = "a random string" print(string1[0,var1])

So I've been wondering if it is possible to use the stored value of a variable as a string indice or if there is another workaround that I haven't thought of or found on the rest of the internet.

Thanks for reading! :)

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  • It should be print(string1[0 : var1]) You should use : instead of , Commented Sep 10, 2015 at 0:10

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Yes, that works. Some background about slices is available in the Python documentation for Extended Slices. But instead of the comma use :

var1 = 6 string1 = "a random string" print(string1[0:var1]) # Output: a rand
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Your problem is not using a variable as indice, but using tuple as indices, which you cannot do. If you wanna print the substring here's the code:

var1 = 6 string1 = "a random string" print(string1[0:var1])
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