A Concise Introduction to Programming in Python

Chapter 11

Strings

Strings are a basic data type in Python; the others you have seen so far are

integer, float, and boolean. Each data type stores its information in a different

way and supports a different set of operations. Whereas integers, floats, and

booleans are each single pieces of data, strings provide our first example of a

data structure, which is a collection of data organized to efficiently support

a particular set of access methods and operations.

A Python string is a sequence of characters inside quotation marks, either

single (’) or double ("). Python also uses a form of triple quotes that you can

read about in the documentation. We used strings ...