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The subscript operator

The subscript operator is defined as square brackets []. It is used to access the elements of string, list tuple, and so on. Let's discuss the syntax with an example:

<given string>[<index>]

The given string is the string you want to examine and the index is the position of the character you want to obtain. Let's discuss this with an example:

>>> name = "The Avengers">>> name[0]'T'>>> len(name)12>>> name[11]'s'>>> >>> name[12] Traceback (most recent call last):  File "<pyshell#6>", line 1, in <module>    name[12]IndexError: string index out of range>>> 

The "The Avengers" string is 12 characters long, which means it ranges from 0 to 11 index. The name[0] represents the character 'T'.  If you give the 12^th index value, ...