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I need to take user input such as: whacky and 2 and the output needs to be whky
whacky
2
whky
I understand you slice a string with
s[start:stop:skip]
but I am not sure how to achieve my goal.
s[:2] + s[-2:]
s = input() i = int(input()) print(s[:i] + s[-i:])
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