Where in my code do I make this new slice of new_word?

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why? the len function calculates the length of the argument passed, which is the latest version of the string

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As I was trying to explain, new_word gets all its elements when the three items are added together. In the process of adding [1:len(new_word)] + first +pyn, how will len(new_word) get the final size in advance?

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Sorry to come again on this. When the argument is being evaluated (i.e. new_word), its latest number of elements are not included yet.

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but its two steps:

  new_word = word + first + pyg
  new_word = new_word[1:len(new_word)]

If you want to do this in one step, you have to use word:

new_word = word[1:len(word)] + first + pyg

which i think yields the same outcome.

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Thank you very much. This was also what I was thinking.

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This is like answering a simple question in a complicated way. Oh, us beginners!

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Thank you for keeping it straight forward.

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to do it in one step and yield the same outcome it would be:

new_word = word[1:len(word)] + first + pyg
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This worked for me: I used a variable that indicates the length of the string [using len()] and used it as the last character or end of string: str[x:{variable}]. If you noticed, this is almost the same as your exampleā€“only that you used len(str). Wow! Iā€™m a first-time Python learner and I realized how versatile Python is. But I think I havenā€™t seen anything yet.

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Maybe Iā€™m slow but I still donā€™t understandā€¦ Especially because in the solution portion new_word and itā€™s string containing it is nowhere to be found. Not even the previous string the project had you do.

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tldr;

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