4

Stringing You Along

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

This chapter builds on our discussion of strings in section 2.2. It may help if you think about the similarities between lists of items and strings of characters, but you must remember that strings are not mutable.

4.1 Single, double, and triple quotes

You may use single quotes or double quotes to delimit a literal string. Python usually prints a string with single ...

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