What will happen if you try to access a slice endpoint that is outside of the string range?

When you attempt to access a slice endpoint that is outside the range of the string, Python handles the situation gracefully by ignoring the out-of-bounds endpoint while still returning the portion of the string that exists. This means that if the start index is valid but the end index exceeds the length of the string, Python simply returns the substring from the start index to the end of the string.

For instance, if you have a string s = "Hello" and you request a slice using s[1:10], the output will be "ello", since there is no character at index 10, but the slice still effectively captures the characters from index 1 onwards until the end of the string.

This behavior avoids the need for error handling with exceptions in most common slicing scenarios, providing a smooth and user-friendly way to work with strings in Python. Thus, the correct understanding is that the slice will return the original string portion as defined by the valid indices, while disregarding any invalid ones that fall outside the string range.