{"id":18916,"date":"2022-01-08T19:35:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T14:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pythonpool.com\/?p=18916"},"modified":"2022-01-08T19:36:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T14:06:39","slug":"python-split-a-string-in-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pythonpool.com\/python-split-a-string-in-half\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Ways to Python Split a String in Half"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hello Geeks, I hope all are doing great. So, while handling data inputs from python or some result, we sometimes need to part a string into two halves. However, it&#8217;s not a difficult job to do. But, sometimes, we get stuck in doing them. Today in this article, we will see how we can python split a string in half and then access each. So, without wasting our time, let&#8217;s get started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_74 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #990303;color:#990303\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #990303;color:#990303\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 eztoc-toggle-hide-by-default' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pythonpool.com\/python-split-a-string-in-half\/#What_do_you_mean_by_Python_Split_a_String_in_Half\" >What do you mean by Python Split a String in Half?<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pythonpool.com\/python-split-a-string-in-half\/#Python_Split_a_String_in_Half_using_String_Slicing\" >Python Split a String in Half using String Slicing<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pythonpool.com\/python-split-a-string-in-half\/#Splitting_String_using_Slice_method\" >Splitting String using Slice method<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pythonpool.com\/python-split-a-string-in-half\/#Python_Split_a_String_in_Half_using_Split_method\" >Python Split a String in Half using Split method<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pythonpool.com\/python-split-a-string-in-half\/#FAQs_on_Python_Split_a_String_in_Half\" >FAQs on Python Split a String in Half<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pythonpool.com\/python-split-a-string-in-half\/#Conclusion\" >Conclusion<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pythonpool.com\/python-split-a-string-in-half\/#Trending_Python_Articles\" >Trending Python Articles<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-do-you-mean-by-python-split-a-string-in-half\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_do_you_mean_by_Python_Split_a_String_in_Half\"><\/span>What do you mean by Python Split a String in Half?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Splitting the strings into half means dividing the string into two halves from the center. However, both partitions can be equal or may not be identical. If the number of strings is even, then both halves are equal, while if the number of strings is odd, then the first half contains fewer characters than the other half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, strings in python can be halved into two parts in two ways. The first one uses string slicing, and the other uses the split method. Let&#8217;s see each of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-python-split-a-string-in-half-using-string-slicing\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Python_Split_a_String_in_Half_using_String_Slicing\"><\/span>Python Split a String in Half using String Slicing<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>String slicing in python refers to accessing the subparts of the strings. When we access half of the string, we can say we halved it into two parts. Let&#8217;s see how we can do it.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: python; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\n# Splitting string using string slicing\n\nstring = &quot;PythonPool&quot;\n# number of words\nn = len(string)\nprint(n)\n\nif n%2 == 0:\n  string1 = string&#x5B;0:n\/\/2]\n  string2 = string&#x5B;n\/\/2:]\n  print(&quot;First Half of String:&quot;,string1)\n  print(&quot;Second Half of String:&quot;,string2)\nelse:\n  string1 = string&#x5B;0:(n\/\/2+1)]\n  string2 = string&#x5B;(n\/\/2+1):]\n  print(&quot;First Half of String:&quot;,string1)\n  print(&quot;Second Half of String:&quot;,string2)\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Output:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>10\nFirst Half of String: Pytho\nSecond Half of String: nPool<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-explanation\">Explanation<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In the above example, we can see that we used string slicing to split the string. We have passed the values as the subscript for the string specifying the beginning and end of the slicing. Then we stored them in a later printed <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Variable_(computer_science)#:~:text=In%20computer%20programming%2C%20a%20variable,%2C%20float%2C%20String%20etc..\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">variable<\/a> or can be used accordingly. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"monsterinsights-inline-popular-posts monsterinsights-inline-popular-posts-kilo monsterinsights-popular-posts-styled\" ><div class=\"monsterinsights-inline-popular-posts-text\"><span class=\"monsterinsights-inline-popular-posts-label\" >Popular now<\/span><span class=\"monsterinsights-inline-popular-posts-border\" ><\/span><span class=\"monsterinsights-inline-popular-posts-border-2\" ><\/span><div class=\"monsterinsights-inline-popular-posts-post\"><a class=\"monsterinsights-inline-popular-posts-title\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.pythonpool.com\/fixed-typeerror-cant-compare-datetime-datetime-to-datetime-date\/\">[Fixed] typeerror can&#8217;t compare datetime.datetime to datetime.date<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p><\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-splitting-string-using-slice-method\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Splitting_String_using_Slice_method\"><\/span>Splitting String using Slice method<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This is another way of dividing the strings into two parts. It accepts two arguments for splitting in which the first argument specifies the starting point of the split and the second argument specifies the ending point of the string. Let&#8217;s understand this with an example. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: python; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\n# Splitting string using slice method\n\nstring = &quot;PythonPool&quot;\n# number of words\nn = len(string)\nprint(n)\n\nif n%2 == 0:\n  s1 = slice(0,n\/\/2)\n  s2 = slice(n\/\/2,n)\n  print(&quot;First Half of String:&quot;,string&#x5B;s1])\n  print(&quot;Second Half of String:&quot;,string&#x5B;s2])\nelse:\n  s1 = slice(0,n\/\/2)\n  s2 = slice(n\/\/2,n)\n  print(&quot;First Half of String:&quot;,string&#x5B;s1])\n  print(&quot;Second Half of String:&quot;,string&#x5B;s2])\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<p> <strong>Output:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>10\nFirst Half of String: Pytho\nSecond Half of String: nPool<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-explanation-1\">Explanation<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In the above example, we created two variable which stores the slicing values using the slice() method. These variables contain the rule of the slicing or positions of slicing, and then we pass it as the subscript for the string we want to slice. This returns the value of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pythonpool.com\/python-substring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">substring<\/a><\/strong><\/span> we want, then we can use it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-python-split-a-string-in-half-using-split-method\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Python_Split_a_String_in_Half_using_Split_method\"><\/span>Python Split a String in Half using Split method<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>So, besides splitting the string into two halves, we can also split the string based on the character within the string. We can use the split method, which returns the list of sub-strings after splitting the string. Let&#8217;s see an example.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: python; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\n# Splitting string using split method\n\nstring = &quot;PythonPool&quot;\nnew_string = string.split('o')\nprint(new_string)\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<p> <strong>Output:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&#91;'Pyth', 'nP', '', 'l']\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-explanation-2\">Explanation<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>So, in the above example, we can see that we have split the string with the character &#8216;o&#8217;, and its occurrence is three times. Hence, the number of substrings created is four (3+1). We have passed the character as an argument of the split method, which returns a list of substrings.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"monsterinsights-inline-popular-posts monsterinsights-inline-popular-posts-beta monsterinsights-popular-posts-styled\" ><div class=\"monsterinsights-inline-popular-posts-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pythonpool.com\/fixed-nameerror-name-unicode-is-not-defined\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pythonpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fixed-nameerror-name-Unicode-is-not-defined-300x157.webp\" srcset=\" https:\/\/www.pythonpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fixed-nameerror-name-Unicode-is-not-defined-300x157.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.pythonpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fixed-nameerror-name-Unicode-is-not-defined-1024x536.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.pythonpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fixed-nameerror-name-Unicode-is-not-defined-768x402.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.pythonpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fixed-nameerror-name-Unicode-is-not-defined.webp 1200w \" alt=\"[Fixed] nameerror: name Unicode is not defined\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"monsterinsights-inline-popular-posts-text\"><span class=\"monsterinsights-inline-popular-posts-label\" >Trending<\/span><div class=\"monsterinsights-inline-popular-posts-post\"><a class=\"monsterinsights-inline-popular-posts-title\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.pythonpool.com\/fixed-nameerror-name-unicode-is-not-defined\/\">[Fixed] nameerror: name Unicode is not defined<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p><\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-faqs-on-python-split-a-string-in-half\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"FAQs_on_Python_Split_a_String_in_Half\"><\/span>FAQs on Python Split a String in Half<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"schema-faq wp-block-yoast-faq-block\"><div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1641558143367\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\">What happens when the length of the string is 0?<\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">If the length of the string is 0, then in both methods, it returns an empty value without raising the error.<br\/>However, in the case of string length equals 1, the string is separated without any error, but either half is empty. <\/p> <\/div> <\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-conclusion\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conclusion\"><\/span>Conclusion<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>So, today in this article, we have seen how we can split a string into two halves. We have seen different ways to split the string into two halves. We have also seen some of the examples for better understanding. I hope this article has helped you. 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