strip the last 4 chars of a string pythin code example
Example 1: how to select last 2 elements in a string python
>>>mystr = "abcdefghijkl"
>>>mystr[-4:]
'ijkl'
>>>mystr[:-4] #to select all but last 4 characters
'abcdefgh'
Example 2: last character of string in python
a = '123456789'
#to get last char, acess index -1
print(a[-1])
#this works the same as:
print(a[len(a)-1])
#instead of 1, subtract n to get string's nth char from last
#let n = 4
print(a[-4])
#result:
9
9
6