#!/usr/bin/python
#-*- coding:utf-8 -*-

string_1 = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"

print string_1[1]
print string_1[1:-1]
print string_1[0:3]

string_2 = u"中国人"
print "use unicode"
print string_2[0:2]

string_3 = u" き ki, ひ hi, み mi, け ke, へ he, め me, こ ko, そ so, と to, の no, も mo, よ yo and ろ ro"
print string_3[0:10]

string_4 = "中国人"
print string_4[0:3]
print string_4[1:4]
