A string is a sequence of characters. You can access the characters one at a time with the bracket operator:
>>> fruit = 'banana'
>>> letter = fruit[1]
The second statement selects character number 1 from fruit
and assigns it to letter. The expression in brackets is called an
index.
The index indicates which character in the sequence you want (hence the name).
But you might not get what you expect:
>>> letter
'a'
For most people, the first letter of 'banana' is
b, not a.
But for computer scientists, the index is an offset from the beginning of the string,
and the offset of the first letter is zero.
>>> letter = fruit[0]
>>> letter
'b'
So, the first character's index is 0, not 1.
As an index you can use an expression that contains variables and operators:
>>> i = 1
>>> fruit[i]
'a'
>>> fruit[i+1]
'n'
But the value of the index has to be an integer. Otherwise, you get:
>>> letter = fruit[1.5]
TypeError: string indices must be integers
Define a function that takes a string, a character and an integer, word, char and i,
and returns True if character of word with index i is equal to char.
