title: how to select certain characters from a string in Python
body: <pre><code>date = line[4:5]
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  <p>I want the 3rd and 4th values in the line to be stored as date. When I use the code above, I end up with date = 1, when I want it to be equal to an integer between 00 and 99. How can I do this right</p>