Enumerate over string instead of iterating with range() and len()

Question

I wrote a function, that returns a new string made of every second character starting with the first.

So that for example "Pizza" yields "Pza", "Maogtbhdewr" yields "Mother".

This code is with range() and len():

def string_skip(string):
    new_string = ""
    for n in range(0, len(string)):
        if n % 2 == 0:
            new_string += string[n]

    return new_string

The code above works as expected. But pylint shows an info suggesting to use enumerate() instead of iterating with range() and len(). So, I tried to rewrite my code without the two built-ins, and I've also read through the documentaion. But I still could not get it to work.

My question: How do I use enumerate() instead of using range() and len()?

Answer 1

yes you can, strings are iterables too.

def string_skip(string):
    new_string = ""
    for i, n in enumerate(string):
        if i % 2 == 0:
            new_string += n

    return new_string