Python – Get First Character of String
To get the first character of the given string in Python, we can use string indexing using square brackets.
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Syntax
The syntax to get the first character of the string x
is
x[0]
Example
In the following program, we take a string value in variable name
, and get the first character of the string.
Python Program
name = 'mango'
if len(name) > 0:
firstChar = name[0]
print(f'First character : {firstChar}')
else:
print('The string is empty. Please check.')
Output
First character : m
Summary
In this tutorial of Python Examples, we learned how to get the first character of a string, with examples.