How to trim n characters from right end of a string?

[Robert]

Please tell this newbie how to remove n characters from the right end of a
string.

Thanks, Robert

 

[Paul Bissex]

Please tell this newbie how to remove n characters from the right end of a
string.

What Tony said, plus this:

s = "chopme"
n = 2
s = s[:-n]
print s

chop



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[Paul McGuire]

Please tell this newbie how to remove n characters from the right end of a
string.

Thanks, Robert

At the Python '>>>' prompt:

a = "This is a string."
print a[:-5]

This is a st

 

[Robert]

Please tell this newbie how to remove n characters from the right end of a
string.

Thanks, Robert

At the Python '>>>' prompt:

a = "This is a string."
print a[:-5]

This is a st

Got it! Thanks Tony and Paul!

Robert