slices to the rescue :)
def left(s, amount):
return s[:amount]
def right(s, amount):
return s[-amount:]
def mid(s, offset, amount):
return s[offset:offset+amount]
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slices to the rescue :)
def left(s, amount):
return s[:amount]
def right(s, amount):
return s[-amount:]
def mid(s, offset, amount):
return s[offset:offset+amount]
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If I remember my QBasic, right, left and mid do something like this:
>>> s = '123456789'
>>> s[-2:]
'89'
>>> s[:2]
'12'
>>> s[4:6]
'56'
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/nightcode/prglang/qbasic/function/strings/left_right.html
Esri Community
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Mid() function in Python - Esri Community
November 1, 2019 - I am trying to use the Python Mid() function to return strings starting at the 5th character. I have tried !STR_NAME!.Mid(5:20) but that gives me a traceback error
Trymito
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Excel to Python: MID Function - A Complete Guide | Mito
Install Mito to start using Excel formulas in Python. # Import the mitosheet Excel functions from mitosheet.public.v3 import *; # Use Mito's MID function # Note: No need to convert the column to a string column before # using Mito's MID function b/c Mito does so automatically df['extracted'] = MID(df['column'], 5, 3)
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Python - Mid occurrence of K in string - GeeksforGeeks
July 23, 2025 - In this, the character is found using regex and finditer(). The mid occurrence is the mid element of the indices list. ... # Python3 code to demonstrate working of # Mid occurrence of K in string # Using finditer() + list comprehension + regex import re # initializing string test_str = "geeksforgeeks is best for all geeks" # printing original string print("The original string is : " + str(test_str)) # initializing K K = 'e' # getting all the indices of K # using regex indices = [ele.start() for ele in re.finditer(K, test_str)] # getting mid index res = indices[len(indices) // 2] # printing result print("Mid occurrence of K : " + str(res))
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Slice a string in python (right, left, mid equivalents) - InterviewQs
A step-by-step Python code example that shows how to slice a string (right, left, mid equivalents). Provided by InterviewQs, a mailing list for coding and data interview problems.
Medium
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March 21, 2023 - Arguments are variables that the function can use in its execution. You can think of Python arguments as the values you pass to a formula in Excel. For example, Excel's mid formula takes three arguments – text, start_num, and num_chars.
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String Functions in Python with Examples
The table below shows many common string functions in Python along with their descriptions and their equivalent functions in MS Excel. If you are intermediate MS Excel users, you must have used LEFT, RIGHT and MID Functions.
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r/learnprogramming on Reddit: Can someone tell me what mid does in python?
February 7, 2015 -
context. Given a string, return a new string where the first and last chars have been exchanged.
their answer
def front_back(str):
if len(str) <= 1:
return str
mid = str[1:len(str)-1] # can be written as str[1:-1]
# last + mid + first
return str[len(str)-1] + mid + str[0] Top answer 1 of 2
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mid is a variable the author has declared, they are using it to store the string minus the first and last characters, so the "middle" if you will.
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That's some remarkably awful Python. With that said, let's step through it (I'm assuming you screwed up the indentation, 'cos otherwise this code would syntaxerror): First if-statement's purpose is obvious. Line 5 gets a substring from index 1, the second character in the string, to index len(str)-1, the second-to-last character in the string. This is stored in mid. The last line constructs a string from the last character of the original string, mid, and the first character of the original string and returns it.
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Python challenges_2 - DEV Community
September 26, 2021 - Also, note that in Python, an index must be an integer, not a floating-point number. So 2 is a valid index, but 2.0 is not. Therefore use integer division // to calculate the index, or cast the float to an integer with int(). def mid(my_string): length = len(my_string) % 2 if length == 0: return "" elif length != 0: middle = len(my_string) // 2 return my_string[middle] print(mid("cars"))
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Python Challenge: Returns middle character(s) of a string | by Python Challengers | Medium
December 6, 2023 - If it’s even, it returns two characters (the middle character and the one before it), whereas if it’s odd, it returns only the middle character. If the length of the word is even (checked with if len(word) % 2 == 0), the function returns a slice of the word that starts from the character at position (middle - 1) and goes up to the character at position (middle + 1).
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python-mid · PyPI
The generate_mid function stores the current time in seconds since the epoch as a 4-byte integer in big-endian order.
» pip install python-mid
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VBScript Mid Function
The Mid function returns a specified number of characters from a string.
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Mid Function - NI
Modular Data Acquisition · Distributed Measurement and Control
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String Manipulation (Left, Mid & Right) in Python - YouTube
This tutorial will help you in doing string manipulations using Python pandas.pd.DataFrame.str[Initial Character:Number of Characters]#pythonstringsplit #str...
Published September 20, 2019
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Finding the Middle Element of a List in Python - AskPython
2 weeks ago - You need the middle of a Python list. There is no list.middle() method, but the answer is three lines once you know the recipe: check the length, branch on odd or even, return the slice. The recipe catches beginners because even-length lists have two middles, not one, and the index arithmetic uses floor division with a -1 on one side. The function ...
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Python: Find the middle character(s) of a given string - w3resource
The function uses a slicing expression [(len(txt)-1)//2:(len(txt)+2)//2] to extract the middle character(s) of the input string. ... For odd-length strings, the slicing extracts a single middle character.
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Here's an example of how I would approach it:
def mid(string):
if len(string) % 2 == 0:
return ""
else:
offset = int(len(string) / 2)
return string[offset: offset + 1]
mid("abc")
mid("asaba")
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Your code fails on edge cases, specifically when given the empty string, but I found during my tests that it works for strings like "asaba", "aaaa", and "abc" but throws the error when given "". The reason for this is because lastnum = enum[-1][0] + 1 will give an index that does not exist for the empty string. The way to fix this would be to add a condition at the beginning of your function that checks if it's an empty string, so like this:
if len(string) == 0:
return ""
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Ways to apply LEFT, RIGHT, MID in Pandas - GeeksforGeeks
July 28, 2020 - # importing pandas library import pandas as pd # creating and initializing a list Cars = ['ID-11111-BMW','ID-22222-Volkswagen', 'ID-33333-Toyota','ID-44444-Hyundai ', 'ID-55555-Datsun','ID-66666-Mercedes'] # creating a pandas dataframe df = pd.DataFrame(Cars, columns= ['Model_name']) # Extracting characters from Middle using # slicing and storing result in 'Mid' Mid = df['Model_name'].str[4:8] print (Mid) Output : 0 1111 1 2222 2 3333 3 4444 4 5555 5 6666 Name: Model_name, dtype: object · Example 4 : Before a symbol using str.split() function · Python3 ·
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Mid Function, Mid Statement
Returns the specified portion of a string expression (Mid function), or replaces the portion of a string expression with another string (Mid subroutine).