How to make a program that prints the first half of what you input?

Question

For example, you input "python' and it prints out "pyt".
I have made one but it prints the letters out on new lines.
x = input(":")
y = int(len(x)/2)
i = 0
while i < y:
print(x[i])
i += 1

Answer 1

print(x[i], end = "")

Answer 2

x = input()
print(x[0:int(len(x)/2)])

And.. ya.. it is your programm
Use slices:)