Introduction to Python string

A string is a series of characters. In Python, anything inside quotes is a string.

And you can use either single or double quotes.

Example 1:

str1="This is a String"

str2='''This is a String'''

str3='This is a String'

print(str1)

print(str2)

print(str3)

Output:

This is a String

This is a String

This is a String

Example 2:

str1="This is a "important" String"

print(str1)

Output:

Error

Example 3:

str1='This is a "important" String'

print(str1)

Output:

This is a "important" String

Example 4:
str1='This is Kapil's notebook'

print(str1)

Output:

Error

Example 5:

str1="This is Kapil's notebook"

print(str1)

Output:

This is Kapil's notebook

Example 6:

print('''this is

a string

in seperate

lines''')

Output:

this is

a string

in seperate

lines

Example 7:

str='it's a wonderful topic'

print(str)

Output:

Error

Example 8:
str='it\'s a wonderful topic'

print(str)

Output:

it's a wonderful topic

Note: We can use value of one string variable into another.

Example:

name = 'John'

message = 'Hi {name}'

print(message)

Output:

Hi {name}

Concatenating Python strings

Concatenation of string means to join (or append) one string after another. For
concatenation of string we need to define two strings and use + operator.

Example:

msg1 = 'Good'

msg2 = ' Morning'

msg3=msg1+msg2

print(msg3)

Output:

Good Morning

String Functions

Count:

Return the number of times the value "apple" appears in the string.
Example:

txt="I am learning string functions. It's fun to learn about string"

n=txt.count("string")

print(n)

Output:

Find:

Searches the string for a specified value and returns the position of where it
was found

Example 1:

txt="I am learning string functions. It's fun to learn about string"

n=txt.find("string")

print(n)

Output:14 # string mentioned starts from

Example 2: txt="I am learning string functions. It's fun to learn about string"

n=txt.find("xyz")

print(n)

Output: -1 #as the string mentioned does not exist

Capitalize:

The capitalize() method returns a string where the first character is upper case,
and the rest is lower case.

Example:

txt="i am learning string functions. It's fun to learn about string"

n=txt.capitalize()

print(n)

Output:

I am learning string functions. It's fun to learn about string

Title:

Converts the first character of each word to upper case

Example:

string functions. It's fun to learn about string"

n=txt.title()

print(n) txt="i am learning

Output:

I Am Learning String Functions. It'S Fun To Learn About String

Lower:

Converts a string into lower case

Example:

txt="I Am Learning String Functions. It'S Fun To Learn About String"

n=txt.lower()

print(n)

Output:

i am learning string functions. it's fun to learn about string

upper:

Converts a string into upper case

Example:

txt="I Am Learning String Functions. It'S Fun To Learn About String"

n=txt.upper()

print(n)

Output:

I AM LEARNING STRING FUNCTIONS. IT'S FUN TO LEARN ABOUT STRING

Swapcase:

Swaps cases, lower case becomes upper case and vice versa
Example:

txt="i AM LEARNING string FUNCTIONS. It'S fun TO LEARN ABOUT string"

n=txt.swapcase()

print(n)

Output:

I am learning STRING functions. iT's FUN to learn about STRING

Replace:

Returns a string where a specified value is replaced with a specified value

Example:

txt="I am learning string functions. It's fun to learn about string"

n=txt.replace("string","python")

print(n)

Output:

I am learning python functions. It's fun to learn about python

Join:

Converts the elements of an iterable into a string. In simpler words, it join all
items in a tuple into a string, using a hash character as separator

Example:

txt=("unit 1", "unit 2", "unit 3","unit 4")

n=".".join(txt)

print(n)

Output:

unit 1.unit 2.unit 3.unit 4

isspace:

Returns True if all characters in the string are whitespaces.

The isspace() method returns True if all the characters in a string are
whitespaces, otherwise False.
Example 1:

txt=" "

n=txt.isspace()

print(n)

Output:

TURE

Example 2:

##txt="I am learning string functions. It's fun to learn about string"

txt=" "

n=txt.isspace()

print(n)

Output:

FALSE

Isdigit:

Returns True if all characters in the string are digits. The isdigit() method
returns True if all the characters are digits, otherwise False.

Example 1:

txt="12345"

n=txt.isdigit()

print(n)

Output:

TRUE

Example 2:

txt="12345A"

n=txt.isdigit()

print(n)

Output:
FALSE

isaplha()

Returns True if all characters in the string are alphabets. The isaplha() method
returns True if all the characters are alphabets, otherwise False.

Example:

str1="ThisIsGood"

print(str1.isalpha())

Output:

True

Slicing: will find substring from a string

Example:

a = ("a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h")

x = slice(3, 5)

print(a[x])

Output:

('d', 'e')

Example 2:

s=’ HELLO ‘

print(s[3:6])

Output:

HEL

Split:

Splits the string at the specified separator, and returns a list. You can specify
the separator, default separator is white space.

Example:

txt="I am learning string functions. It's fun to learn about string"

n=txt.split()

print(n)

Output:

['I', 'am', 'learning', 'string', 'functions.', "It's", 'fun', 'to', 'learn', 'about', 'string']

Startswith:

Returns true if the string starts with the specified value.

The startswith() method returns True if the string starts with the specified
value, otherwise False.

Example 1:

txt="I am learning string functions. It's fun to learn about string"

n=txt.startswith("learning")

print(n)

Output:

False

Example 2:

txt="I am learning string functions. It's fun to learn about string"

n=txt.startswith("I")

print(n)

Output:

TRUE

Endwith()

Returns true if the string ends with the specified value

Example 1:

txt="I am learning string functions. It's fun to learn about string"

n=txt.endswith("string")

print(n)

Output:
TRUE

Example 2:

txt="I am learning string functions. It's fun to learn about string"

n=txt.endswith("str")

print(n)

Output:

FALSE