Python 3 - Second Edition

3.3    Character Strings

In addition to numbers, character strings, also referred to as strings, are extremely important in almost every real-world program. Strings allow text to be read, saved, edited, or output by the user.

To create a string, the associated text is written in double quotation marks:

>>> "Hello World"'Hello World'>>> "abc123"'abc123'  

The single quotes that the interpreter uses to output the value of a string are an equivalent notation to the double quotes that we use and that you may also use:

>>> 'Hello World''Hello World'  

Similar to integers and floats, you can also use operators for strings. For example, the + operator joins two strings:

>>> "Hello" + " " + "World"'Hello World'  

The two different notations for strings ...