Python Get the first character of the first string in a list

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How would I get the first character from the first string in a list in Python     It seems that I could use mylist 0  1   but that does not give me the first character    gt  gt  gt  mylist       gt  gt  gt  mylist append  asdf    gt  gt  gt  mylist append  jkl     gt  gt  gt  mylist 0  1    sdf

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You almost had it right  The simplest way is  mylist 0  0      get the first character from the first item in the list   but  mylist 0   1     get up to the first character in the first item in the list   would also work    You want to end after the first character  character zero   not start after the first character  character zero   which is what the code in your question means

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Get the first character of a bare python string    gt  gt  gt  mystring    hello   gt  gt  gt  print mystring 0   h  gt  gt  gt  print mystring  1   h  gt  gt  gt  print mystring 3   l  gt  gt  gt  print mystring -1   o  gt  gt  gt  print mystring 2 3   l  gt  gt  gt  print mystring 2 4   ll   Get the first character from a string in the first position of a python list    gt  gt  gt  myarray       gt  gt  gt  myarray append  blah    gt  gt  gt  myarray 0   1   b   gt  gt  gt  myarray 0  -1   h   gt  gt  gt  myarray 0  1 3   la    Many people get tripped up here because they are mixing up operators of Python list objects and operators of Numpy ndarray objects   Numpy operations are very different than python list operations     Wrap your head around the two conflicting worlds of Python s  list slicing  indexing  subsetting  and then Numpy s  masking  slicing  subsetting  indexing  then numpy s enhanced fancy indexing    These two videos cleared things up for me    Losing your Loops  Fast Numerical Computing with NumPy  by PyCon 2015  https   youtu be EEUXKG97YRw t 22m22s   NumPy Beginner   SciPy 2016 Tutorial  by Alexandre Chabot LeClerc  https   youtu be gtejJ3RCddE t 1h24m54s

User · Answer

Try mylist 0  0   This should return the first character

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Indexing in python starting from 0  You wrote  1   this would not return you a first char in any case - this will return you a rest except first char  of string   If you have the following structure   mylist     base    sample    test     And want to get fist char for the first one string item    myList 0  0   gt  gt  gt  b   If all first chars    x 0  for x in myList   gt  gt  gt    b    s    t         If you have a text   text    base sample test  text split   0  0   gt  gt  gt  b

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