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Python

All possible substring in python

I wanna print all possible substring from a given a string in python. But I'm stuck, I cant figure out the logic on how to get all possible substring. Please explain to me with python code.Thank you.

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Is this a project in one of the courses? If so, you could give a link to the course page.

One possible method would be two use two loops. The first loop would go through all the letters of the string, making it be the start of the substring. Then the 2nd loop would go through all possible lengths of the substring (from that letter to the end, or less). But be aware that "all possible substrings" could be very many unless the string is very short!

Try coding it with that concept in mind, and if you have trouble post the code you have at that point.


UPDATE: You're close, but you need the starting index (number). And the ending range needs to be based on the start. Finally, use a slice to get the substring:

for i in range(len(s)):       # pick the first letter
  for m in range(i, len(s)):  # pick the last letter
    print(s[i:m+1])           # print the substring (slice)

I'm stuck here. can you please help me with the code? s = 'abc' for i in s: for m in range(len(s)-1):