The Python Apprentice

String methods

The String objects also support a wide variety of operations implemented as methods. We can list those methods by using help() on the string type:

>>> help(str)

When you press Enter, you should see a display like this:

Help on class str in module builtins:class str(object) |  str(object='') -> str |  str(bytes_or_buffer[, encoding[, errors]]) -> str | |  Create a new string object from the given object. If encoding or |  errors is specified, then the object must expose a data buffer |  that will be decoded using the given encoding and error handler. |  Otherwise, returns the result of object.__str__() (if defined) |  or repr(object). |  encoding defaults to sys.getdefaultencoding(). |  errors defaults to 'strict'. | | Methods defined ...