How to trim n characters from right end of a string?

Paul Bissex paul.bissex at gmail.com
Sat Jun 26 20:04:27 EDT 2004


On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:45:42 GMT, Robert <nospam at nospam.net> wrote:
> 
> Please tell this newbie how to remove n characters from the right end of a
> string.

What Tony said, plus this:

>>> s = "chopme"      
>>> n = 2
>>> s = s[:-n]
>>> print s
chop



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