Python: print specific character from string

Question

How do I print a specific character from a string in Python? I am still learning and now trying to make a hangman like program. The idea is that the user enters one character, and if it is in the word, the word will be printed with all the undiscovered letters as "-".

I am not asking for a way to make my idea/code of the whole project better, just a way to, as i said, print that one specific character of the string.

• oystein-hr: Possible duplicate of How to check a string for specific characters?
• MattDMo: Possible duplicate of Is there a way to substring a string in Python?

Answer 1

print(yourstring[characterposition])

Example

print("foobar"[3]) 

prints the letter b

EDIT:

mystring = "hello world"
lookingfor = "l"
for c in range(0, len(mystring)):
 if mystring[c] == lookingfor:
 print(str(c) + " " + mystring[c]);

Outputs:

2 l
3 l
9 l

And more along the lines of hangman:

mystring = "hello world"
lookingfor = "l"
for c in range(0, len(mystring)):
 if mystring[c] == lookingfor:
 print(mystring[c], end="")
 elif mystring[c] == " ":
 print(" ", end="")
 else:
 print("-", end="")

produces

--ll- ---l-

• EVARATE: Hey thanks for that, but I know that way to print as in your example the third letter. But I am searching for a way to print a specific letter and its character position. In your case: I search for the "b". The output is the position and the character itself.
• EVARATE: Hi. Yeah thats exactly what I need. Thanks buddy.

Answer 2

all you need to do is add brackets with the char number to the end of the name of the string you want to print, i.e.

text="hello"
print(text[0])
print(text[2])
print(text[1])

returns:

h
l
e

Answer 3

Well if you know the character you want to search you can use this approach.

i = character looking for
input1 = string

if i in input1:
 print(i)

you can change the print statement according to your logic.

Answer 4

name = "premier league"
for x in name:
 print(x)

Result shown below:-

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To print specific characters of the given string. For example to print 'l' from the given string

name = "premier league"
for x in name: 
 if x == "l": 
 print("element found: "+x)

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• Ivan: Copy-paste the outputs, please don't post screenShots of your terminal :)