Using Python to Remove Last Character from String

To remove the last character from a string in Python, the easiest way is with slicing.

string = "This is a string variable"

string_without_last_char = string[:-1]

print(string_without_last_char)

#Output:
This is a string variabl

You can also use the Python string rstrip() function.

string = "This is a string variable"

string_without_last_char = string.rstrip(string[-1])

print(string_without_last_char)

#Output:
This is a string variabl

When using string variables in Python, we can easily perform string manipulation to change the value of the string variables.

One such manipulation is to remove characters from a string variable.

For example, we can easily remove the last character from a string in Python. To remove the last character from a string in Python, we can use string slicing.

To remove the last character in a string using slicing, we know that the last character has index ‘-1’. So, to get everything except the last character, we end our slice at position ‘-1’ and don’t provide a start position to get everything else in the string.

Below is an example of how to get rid of the last character in a string using Python.

string = "This is a string variable"

string_without_last_char = string[:-1]

print(string_without_last_char)

#Output:
This is a string variabl

You can also use slicing to remove the first character from a string in Python in a very similar way. To remove the first character in a string, pass ‘1’ as the start position.

string = "This is a string variable"

string_without_first_char = string[1:]

print(string_without_first_char)

#Output:
his is a string variable

Using the Python rstrip() Function to Remove Last Character from String

In Python, The string method rstrip() removes the characters from the right side of the string that is given to it.

We can use the rstrip() method to remove the last character of a string by passing the last character of the string to the function.

Below is how you can use the rstrip() function in Python to get rid of the last character in a string.

string = "This is a string variable"

string_without_last_char = string.rstrip(string[-1])

print(string_without_last_char)

#Output:
This is a string variabl

How to Remove the Last N Characters from String Using Python

We can also use slicing to get rid of the last n characters of a string easily in Python.

To remove the last n characters from a string using Python, you just need to change the input to the end position argument of the slice you want.

For example, to remove the last 5 characters from a string, you pass ‘-5’ as shown in the following Python code.

string = "This is a string variable"

string_without_last_5_char = string[:-5]

print(string_without_last_5_char)

#Output:
This is a string var

How to Remove the Last and Last Character from a String Using Python

Another example of how we can use slicing to remove characters from a string using Python is the removal of the first and last character from a string.

With slicing again, we can easily get rid of the first and last character from a string.

To do so, we need to select all of the elements between the first and last character.

Below is how we can remove the first and last character from a string in Python.

string = "This is a string variable"

string_without_first_last_char = string[1:-1]

print(string_without_first_last_char)

#Output:
his is a string variabl

How to Remove a Character at a Specific Position in a String Using Python

The last example I want to share with you in this article is how to remove a character from a string at a specific position.

Let’s say we want to remove the sixth character from a string.

To do so, we can create two slices from our original string and then concatenate them. We first slice from the start of our string to the desired position, and then slice from the desired position + 1 to the end.

Below is an example of how to use slicing in Python to remove a character at a specific position.

string = "This is a string variable"

string_without_sixth_char = string[0:6]+string[6+1:]

print(string_without_sixth_char)

#Output:
This i a string variable

Hopefully this article has been beneficial for you to learn how to remove the last character from a string in your Python code.