Strings model character sequences and possess the type str, which offers a variety of functions. In this chapter, you will learn about this topic through various exercises.
4.1 Introduction
Strings consist of single characters and, like lists, are sequential data types (see section 5.1.1), which is why many actions can be performed analogously, such as slicing. Unlike other languages, Python does not have a data type for individual characters, so they are simply represented as strings of length 1.
Strings can be created as character sequences ...
