Split a string into 2 in Python

Whoever is suggesting string[:len(string)/2], string[len(string)/2] is not keeping odd length strings in mind!

This works perfectly. Verified on edx.

first_half  = s[:len(s)//2]
second_half = s[len(s)//2:]

firstpart, secondpart = string[:len(string)/2], string[len(string)/2:]

a,b = given_str[:len(given_str)/2], given_str[len(given_str)/2:]