Python Example - Get and remove Last Character from a String

Python Example - Get and remove Last Character from a String

This tutorial explains about following how to examples in Python

  • How to get Last character from a String in Python
  • Remove last character from a string in python

How to get Last character from a String in Python

First character can be get using index=length-1

One way using find the last index,

  • get Length of a string using len(string), substract 1 from given length
  • Pass the above index to str such as str[len(str)-1]

Another way, using negative index This index are iterated from last position of a string. str[-1] results to last character

str="hello";

print(str[-1]); #0
print(str[len(str)-1]);#0

Remove Last Character from a string in python

Many ways we can remove the last character, return new string

One way by using slicing syntax

str[:-1] return all characters except first character Next way, find the last index position and str[:lastIndex] return new string

Second way using rstrip function

rstrip removes the last character from a string and return a new string

str="hello";

print(str[:-1]); #hell

lastIndex=len(str)-1
print(str[:lastIndex])#hell

result = str.rstrip(str[-1])
print(result); #hell