How to Get First and Last Digit of Number in Python?

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There are several ways to get the first and last digits of a number in Python. I will give you two simple examples to get the last digit from a number. You can see both examples one by one.

Example 1:

main.py

number1 = 3568
# Get First Digit from Number
lastDigit = str(number1)[0]
lastDigit = int(lastDigit)
firstDigit = str(number1)[-1]
firstDigit = int(firstDigit)

  
print(firstDigit)
print(lastDigit)

Output:

3
8

Example 2:

You can get the first and last digits of a number in Python using simple mathematical operations. Here's an example code:

In this example, we first convert the number to a string using str(num), then extract the first character of the string using indexing [0], and finally convert it back to an integer using int(). This gives us the first digit of the number.

To get the last digit, we use the modulus operator % to get the remainder of the division of num by 10, which is the last digit of num.

main.py

num = 12345
# Get the first digit
firstDigit = int(str(num)[0])
print(firstDigit)
# Get the last digit
lastDigit = num % 10
print(lastDigit)

Output:

1
5