Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional

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M. L. Hetland, F. NelliBeginning Pythonhttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0196-9_3

3. Working with Strings

Magnus Lie Hetland¹   and Fabio Nelli²

(1)

Trondheim, Norway

(2)

ROMA, Roma, Italy

 

You’ve seen strings before and know how to make them. You’ve also looked at how to access their individual characters by indexing and slicing. In this chapter, you see how to use them to format other values (for printing, for example) and take a quick look at the useful things you can do with string methods, such as splitting, joining, searching, and more.

Basic String Operations

All the standard sequence operations (indexing, slicing, multiplication, membership, length, minimum, ...