Should I think of indexing or offset (that starts from 0 rather than 1 in python) not as the number of the character itself, but

Question

I read somewhere that this offsetting is because of the spaces not number of characters or due to some kind of tradition in programming languages....
e.g.
my_string = 'fugu-sashi'
my_string[0]
output is 'f'
Here you can see that.. between start & the character-'f' we have zero space, so it is indexed as '0' & so on..

Answer 1

I wouldn't overthink it too much :)
Indexes in Python start from 0, that's it. It kind of grows on you after a while... ;)