Getting certain amount of symbols from string in Python.

Question

Please help with following task. Need to return 2 symbols from middle of the word if it have even symbols and 3 if there is odd number of symbols.

Example:
#even
Input: bottle
Output: tt
#odd
Input: bottles
Output: ttl

Answer 1

You are really supposed to give it a try and post your attempt, before asking others to solve it for you.

https://code.sololearn.com/cMudPEWx14Xq/?ref=app

Answer 2

What if the string length was 3 or 1? These are both odd, but for the case of 3, it means the whole string is returned. And if it is only 1 character length, then there's not enough characters to return 3 characters.

Answer 3

Thanks everybody. Especially Jayakrishna, however output of the code is differ from what I trying to solve.

What I need is when input abcdef
Output should be: cd

And when I input: abcdefg
Output: cde

However thanks for your attention and time.

Answer 4

Tibor Santa thank you very much for solution from now I post my attempts as well. Thanks for advice.

Answer 5

In=input()
i=len(In)
if(i%2==1) :
print(In[i//2-1])
print(In[i//2]+In[i//2+1])

Answer 6

What you tried to get it?