Practical String Processing Coding Clinic.
Nine coding challenges from indexing and slicing to searching, vowel counting and independent log-message processing.
How it works: Read the requirement, predict the result, and write real Python. When a task uses input(), provide one response per line in the Program Input panel. Run tries your chosen values; Check uses the task's stated sample and additional scenario checks when included. No account or installation is required.
Review the lesson →Write it. Run it. Understand it.
Learn character indexing, string searching, slicing and original text algorithms in real Python.
Inspect the first and last characters
Read the supplied device name using input('Device: '), store its first character in first and its last character in last, and print exactly 'SW-01: S / 1'. Do not hardcode the characters; use indexing so changing the hostname changes the result.
Device: SW-01
SW-01: S / 1Responses for input() — only when your script asks
What this does: If your code asks input("Device? ") and then input("Port? "), Python reads your first line as the device and the second as the port. Run uses the responses above. Check uses the exercise's provided test inputs. The result of input() is always text until you convert it. If your code never calls input(), you don't need this panel.
Try solving it before asking for help. Hints never show a completed program.
Your printed output and errors will appear here.
Run the code, then step through the executed lines to watch variable values change.