Get the nth character of a string in Python

In this tutorial, we will learn how to get the nth character of a string in Python.

In Python, strings are the sequence of characters, where the index of the first character is 0, the second character is 1, and the third character is 3 etc.

Getting the nth character

To access the nth character of a string in Python, we can use the built-in Square Brackets Notation [] by passing the nth index as an argument.

Here is an example, that gets the first character D from the following string:

place = "Denmark"
firstCharacter = place[0]

print(firstCharacter)

Output:

"D"

We can access the second and third characters of a string like this:

secondCharacter = place[1] // e

thirdCharacter = place[2] // n

Similarly, we can also access the characters from the end of the string using the negative index in Python.

-1 is used to access the last character from the end of a string, -2 is used to access second character from the end of a string, etc.

Here is an example:

place = "Denmark"

lastCharacter = place[-1] // k