How to get First Character of String in Python?

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]

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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

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Summary

In this tutorial of Python Examples, we learned how to get the first character of a string, with examples.