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hhydration

Oct-10-2020, 10:08 PM
The use of :: is prohibited for certain assignments, what would be a substitute that would allow you to do things like print every other character in a string?

scidam

Oct-10-2020, 11:21 PM
If slicing is allowed for the object,  you can use it directly, e.g.:

'a string'[slice(None, None, 2)]
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