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Given a string, take the first 2 chars and return the string with the 2 chars added at both the front and back, so “kitten” yields”kikittenki”. If the string length is less than 2, use whatever chars are there.

This exercise was taken from codingbat.com and has been adapted for the Python language. There are many great programming exercises there, but the majority are created for Java.

Test 1

Input:

'kitten'

Output:

'kikittenki'

Test 2

Input:

'Ha'

Output:

'HaHaHa'

Test 3

Input:

'abc'

Output:

'ababcab'

Test 4

Input:

'ab'

Output:

'ababab'

Test 5

Input:

'a'

Output:

'aaa'

Test 6

Input:

''

Output:

''

Test 7

Input:

'Logic'

Output:

'LoLogicLo'