TIP - Sub-Strings

Sub-strings are used to retrieve part of a whole string.

In Python, substrings are accessed as follows:-

myString[startindex:numberofchars]

>>myString = "Hello World!"

>>mySubString = myString[7:4]

>>print mySubString

orld

Further example:-

>>myString="Hello there !bob@"

>>mySubString=myString[myString.find("!")+1:myString.find("@")]

>>print mySubString

bob