whose index is the first number in the slice and ends with the last character in the stringflavor[ :piefor "fig pie"the slice [ :is equivalent to the slice [ : since the character at index is spaceflavor[ : returns the substring that starts with the space and ends with the last letterpieif you omit both the first and second numbers in sliceyou get string that starts with the character at index and ends with the last character in other wordsomitting both numbers in slice returns the entire stringflavor[:'fig pieit' important to note thatunlike with string indexingpython won' raise an indexerror when you try to slice between boundaries that fall outside the beginning or ending boundaries of stringflavor[: 'fig pieflavor[ : 'in this examplethe first line gets the slice from the beginning of the string up to but not including the fourteenth character the string assigned to flavor has length of sevenso you might expect python to throw an error insteadit ignores any nonexistent indices and returns the entire string "fig piethe third line shows what happens when you try to get slice in which the entire range is out of bounds flavor[ : attempts to get the thirteenth and fourteenth characterswhich don' exist instead of raising an errorpython returns the empty string (""