Practical Programming, 2nd Edition

Exploring String Methods

Strings are central to programming; almost every program uses strings in some way. We’ll explore some of the ways in which we can manipulate strings and, at the same time, firm up our understanding of methods.

The most commonly used string methods are listed in Table 7, ​Common String Methods​. (You can find the complete list in Python’s online documentation, or type help(str) into the shell.)

Table 7. Common String Methods

Method	Description
str.capitalize()	Returns a copy of the string with the first letter capitalized and the rest lowercase
str.count(s)	Returns the number of nonoverlapping occurrences of s in the string
str.endswith(end)	Returns True iff the string ends with the characters ...