We started using strings in Chapter 1 with this statement:
print 'Hello World'Later, we talked about how you get input from the user as a string, and how to convert that input into a number:
>>>>>> age = raw_input('Please enter your age: ')Please enter your age: 24>>> age = int(age)>>>
Then I showed you how to concatenate strings, like this:
>>>>>> string1 = 'Hello'>>> string2 = 'there'>>> greeting = string1 + ' ' + string2>>> print greetingHello there>>>Other than being used to nicely format output, we haven’t talked that much about strings. In this chapter, and in the next two chapters, we get heavily into strings. ...
