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pythonstringstartswith

How do I get the beginning of a string in Python?

So... I tried to get what my string starts with and I tried to see if I can get what my string starts with, with the startswith function. But as I'm trying to use startswith function it just returning True or False. This is how I tried:

str1 = "sdf fds dfs"
str1.startswith()
Solution

  • To add to the above answers, if you want the first word you can use str1.split(" ").

    e.g.

    str1 = "sdf fds dfs"
str1 = str1.split(" ")
print(str1[0])

    prints sdf