Core Python Programming

6.6. String Built-in Methods

String methods were recently added to Python, introduced in version 1.6 (and in JPython 1.1), and tweaked for 2.0. These methods are intended to replace most of the functionality in the string module as well as to bring new functionality to the table. Table 6.6 shows all the current methods for strings. All string methods should fully support Unicode strings. And some are applicable only to Unicode strings.

Table 6.6. String Type Built-in Methods

Value	Description
string.capitalize()	capitalizes first letter of string
string.center(width)	returns a space-padded string with the original string centered to a total of width columns
string.count(str, beg= 0,end=len(string))	counts how many times str occurs in string, or in a ...