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Python Introducing Lists Meet Lists Indexing

Sanjay Devadkar
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Posted by Sanjay Devadkar
Sanjay Devadkar
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how to slice word from list

suppose i have below list and i want to get word 3, 4th and 7th from the list. how to get that is single line.

example of list:- continents = ['Asia', 'South America', 'North America', 'Africa', 'Europe', 'Antarctica', 'Australia']

2 Answers

Alex Koumparos
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Alex Koumparos
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Alex Koumparos
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Alex Koumparos
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Hi Sanjay,

I'm not sure why you'd want to do this, but in your example you could write:

sliced = continents[2:4] + [continents[6]]

Cheers,

Alex

Carlos Alvarez
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Carlos Alvarez
Carlos Alvarez
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did you ever figure out how to get it?