Is there a way to substring a string in Python?

Is there a way to substring a string in Python, to get a new string from the 3rd character to the end of the string?

Maybe like myString[2:end]?

EDIT: If leaving the second part means 'till the end', if you leave the first part, does it start from the start?

From stackoverflow

• >>> x = "Hello World!"
  >>> x[2:]
  'llo World!'
  >>> x[:2]
  'He'
  >>> x[:-2]
  'Hello Worl'
  >>> x[-2:]
  'd!'
  

  Paolo Bergantino : oo, I was about to add more examples, but I see it was done for me. Thank you kind sir.

• Yes there is. Your example is very close:

  myString[2:]
  

• myString[2:] .. leave off the second index to go to the end

• mystring[2:]

• You've got it right there except for "end". Its called slice notation. Your example should read.

  new_sub_string = myString[2:]
  

  If you leave out the second param it is implicitly the end of the string.

• Besides the direct answer that others have given, you can find all the other rules for slicing behavior explained in the Strings section of the official tutorial.

  tgray : +1: for having a link to more information :-)

• One example seems to be missing here: full (shallow) copy.

  >>> x = "Hello World!"
  >>> x
  'Hello World!'
  >>> x[:]
  'Hello World!'
  >>> x==x[:]
  True
  >>>
  

  This is a common idiom for creating a copy of sequence types (not of interned strings). [:] Shallow copies a list, See python-list-slice-used-for-no-obvious-reason.

  Joan Venge : Does this create a new copy?

  gimel : A new copy will be created for lists - see edited answer.