How to print the letter of a certain string that the user wants

Question

I'm new to python and have a question. I want to create a program that ask the user for a number between 1 and 26. Then use this response to print the corresponding letter of the alphabet (a is the 1st letter, b is the 2nd letter, z is the 26th letter, etc). If there is an IndexError, print ("Your number is out of range"). For all other errors, print("Something else occurred").

Right now I have this:

try:
    theAlphabet = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
    alphabet=input("Give me a number between 1 and 26.")
    print(len(theAlphabet)

except IndexError:
    print("Your number is out of range")
except: 
    print("Something else occurred")

I dont know what to do after the print(len(theAlphabet) part.

Answer 1

print(chr(ord("a")+alphabet))

ord("a") gives you the ASCII value of the letter "a". Then you can add the number. chr(x) gives you the ASCII character for a value. Note that this is not checking for errors on the range, but it's probably best to do that another way.

Answer 2

You can access the string with an index, but you will need to convert the user input to an interger using int() and also reduce the value by 1.

try:
    theAlphabet = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
    alphabet=input("Give me a number between 1 and 26: ")
    print(len(theAlphabet))
    print(theAlphabet[int(alphabet)-1])

except IndexError:
    print("Your number is out of range")
except: 
    print("Something else occurred")