2. Advanced String Capabilities
How does a computer communicate messages to humans? Through hand-waving, smoke signals, or (as in sci-fi movies of the 1950s) a blinking red light?
No. Even programs that utilize voice or voice recognition (somewhat outside the scope of this book) depend on groups of printable characters called text strings, or just strings. Every programmer needs to manage the art of prompting for, searching, and printing these strings. Fortunately, Python excels at this task.
Even if you’ve used Python text strings before, you’ll likely want to peruse this chapter to make sure that you’re using all the built-in capabilities of Python strings.
2.1 Strings Are Immutable
Data types in Python are either mutable (changeable) or ...
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