Programming the Raspberry Pi, Third Edition: Getting Started with Python, 3rd Edition

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Strings, Lists, and Dictionaries

This chapter could have had “and Functions” added to its title, but the title was already long enough. In this chapter, you will first explore and play with the various ways of representing data and adding some structure to your programs in Python. You will then put everything you learned together into the simple game of Hangman, where you have to guess a word chosen at random by asking whether that word contains a particular letter.

The chapter ends with a reference section that tells you all you need to know about the most useful built-in functions for math, strings, lists, and dictionaries.

String Theory

No, this is not the Physics kind of String Theory. In programming, a string is a sequence of characters ...