Python best way to remove char from string by index

Question

I'm removing an char from string like this:

S = "abcd" Index=1 #index of string to remove ListS = list(S) ListS.pop(Index) S = "".join(ListS) print S #"acd" 

I'm sure that this is not the best way to do it.

EDIT I didn't mentioned that I need to manipulate a string size with length ~ 10^7. So it's important to care about efficiency.

Can someone help me. Which pythonic way to do it?

Answer 1

You can bypass all the list operations with slicing:

S = S[:1] + S[2:] 

or more generally

S = S[:Index] + S[Index + 1:] 

Many answers to your question (including ones like this) can be found here: How to delete a character from a string using python?. However, that question is nominally about deleting by value, not by index.