Introduction
Quick recap
Indexing and slicing
Instruction
Perfect. You can also include a third number when slicing:
alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyxz' alphabet[3:10:2]
The third number is the step. The code above will return every second character from the string, beginning from index 3 (inclusive) and finishing at index 10 (exclusive). This diagram will help you understand what happens:
Exercise
A secret message was encoded in the string secret_message. To decode the message, print every other character, beginning at the character with the index 1.
Stuck? Here's a hint!
Use secret_message[1::2]
