How to get last character from String in Python?

Get Last Character from String

To get the last character from a string in Python, access the character from string using square brackets and pass the index of string length - 1.

The following expression returns the last character from the string myString.

myString[len(myString) - 1]

We can also use a negative index of -1 to get the last character from a string.

myString[-1]

Examples

In the following program, we take a string in name variable, and get the last character using square brackets notation.

main.py

name = 'apple'

lastChar = name[len(name) -  1]
print(f'Last Character : {lastChar}')

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Output

Last Character : e

Now, we shall pass a negative index of -1 in square brackets after the string variable, to get the last character in the string name.

main.py

name = 'apple'

lastChar = name[-1]
print(f'Last Character : {lastChar}')

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Output

Last Character : e

Conclusion

In this Python Tutorial, we learned how to get the last character from a string in Python using square brackets notation.