This seems to be a problem created with the intention of trying the index method.
>>> word = "Love it or leave it."
>>> word.index("leave")
11
>>> start = word.index("leave")
>>> end = word.index(" ", start)
>>> end
16
>>> word[start:end]
'leave'
>>> print(word[start:end])
leave
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