Let's say I have a string
str1 = "TN 81 NZ 0025"  two = first2(str1) print(two)  # -> TN  How do I get the first two letters of this string? I need the first2 function for this.
To extract the first two characters of a list in Python you can use [:2] which is the short version of [0:2].
Use the String. substring() method to get the first two characters of a string, e.g. const first2 = str. substring(0, 2); . The substring method will return a new string containing the first two characters of the original string.
It is as simple as string[:2]. A function can be easily written to do it, if you need. 
Even this, is as simple as
def first2(s):     return s[:2] 
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