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How would I find the amount of characters in a string and then use that to print a certain amount of some character that you choose. For example:

a = 'string' # this holds 6 characters
print '*' * # amount of characters in string
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Perhaps you mean

>>> len('string')
6
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Thanks I have not been doing much work with strings latley I feel stupid now. Thanks for helping me though

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