How do I get a slice of a string held in a tuple?

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On Apr 8, 11:34?am, Lorenzo Thurman <lore... at diespammerhethurmans.com>
wrote:
> I have tuple which hold a string in tup[0]. I want to get a slice of
> that string. I thought I would do something like:
> tup[0][start:end]
> But this fails.

No, it doesn't.

>>> a = ('abcdefg','hijkl')
>>> a[0]
'abcdefg'
>>> a[0][1:2]
'b'


> How do I go about it?

Do it correctly. Post your actual example that fails
and the related error message. Possibnly your indexes
were out of range.

> I googled this and found a couple
> of references, but no solution.

Well, there wouldn't be  a solution to a non-existent
problem, would there?

> TIA