Answers for "how to get the first letters from a string in python"

get first x characters of string python

characters = 4
string = "This is a string"
print(string[:characters])
#output: 'This'

get first letter of each word in string python

def abbrevName(name):
    xs = (name)
    name_list = xs.split()
    # print(name_list)

    first = name_list[0][0]
    second = name_list[1][0]

    return(first.upper() + "." + second.upper())
answer = abbrevName("Ozzie Smith")
print(answer)