Can we subscript a String in mojo?

[abhinav-upadhyay]

In Python strings, you can do this:

s = 'hello, world'
print(s[0])

In mojo, this doesn't work:

let s = 'hello, world'
print(s[0])

error: Expression [1]:17:12: 'StringLiteral' is not subscriptable, it does not implement the `__getitem__`/`__setitem__` methods
    print(s[0])
          ~^

Similar errors for doing this with String or StringRef objects too.

Are there other alternatives available at the moment to achieve the equivalent? Or someway to convert the String into an array/vector of underlying bytes?

[TZDak]

That should work. Probably just not implemented yet. If you use the Python.str type for now, I would think you could work around that.
Perhaps something like...

let s = 'hello, world'
print(Python.str(s)[0])

[abhinav-upadhyay]

That also doesn't appear to work. Did it work for you?

[czheo]

Try this

from String import String
print(String("hello")[2])

[abhinav-upadhyay]

Thanks, I had tried this last week. Looks like in the latest release they added support for this.