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Subject: Re: Extract the middle N chars of a string
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Peter Otten wrote:

>>>> def mid(s, n):
> ...     shave = len(s) - n
> ...     if shave > 0:
              shave += len(s) % 2
> ...         shave //= 2
> ...         s = s[shave:shave+n]
> ...     return s

> Not exactly the same results as your implementation though.

The extra line should fix that, but it looks, err -- odd.