Iterate over characters of a string in Python

In Python, while operating with String, one can do multiple operations on it. Let’s see how to iterate over characters of a string in Python.

Example #1: Using simple iteration and range()

# Python program to iterate over characters of a string 

# Code #1 

string_name = "geeksforgeeks"

# Iterate over the string 

for element in string_name: 

    print(element, end=' ') 

print("\n") 

# Code #2 

string_name = "GEEKS"

# Iterate over index 

for element in range(0, len(string_name)): 

    print(string_name[element])

Output:

g e e k s f o r g e e k s 

G
E
E
K
S

Example #2: Using enumerate() function

# Python program to iterate over characters of a string 

string_name = "Geeks"

# Iterate over the string 

for i, v in enumerate(string_name): 

    print(v)

Output:

G
e
e
k
s

Example #3: Iterate characters in reverse order

# Python program to iterate over characters of a string 

# Code #1 

string_name = "GEEKS"

# slicing the string in reverse fashion  

for element in string_name[ : :-1]: 

    print(element, end =' ') 

print('\n') 

# Code #2 

string_name = "geeksforgeeks"

# Getting length of string 

ran = len(string_name) 

# using reversed() function 

for element in reversed(range(0, ran)): 

    print(string_name[element])

Output:

S K E E G 

s
k
e
e
g
r
o
f
s
k
e
e
g

Example #4: Iteration over particular set of element.

Perform iteration over string_name by passing particular string index values.

# Python program to iterate over particular set of element. 

string_name = "geeksforgeeks"

# string_name[start:end:step] 

for element in string_name[0:8:1]:  

    print(element, end =' ')