APPLICATION LABORATORY II

Sherina Sally

Strings in Python Department of ICT

Faculty of Technology,
University of Colombo

PYTHON STRINGS …(1)

• A sequence of characters

• Used to store textual values

• Immutable
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• Each character of the string can be accessed using the position of the element
- Positioning starts from 0
- Python supports negative indexing
- Python doesn’t have a separate data type to represent characters

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PYTHON STRINGS …(2)
• Obtain the length of a String by len()

• Check whether a substring is present in a string use in

- “ring” in “string”  returns True

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• Check whether a substring is not present in a string use not in

- “rings” not in “string”  returns True

• Delete the entire string using the del keyword

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STRING SLICING
• Extracts a part from a string as a substring

str[a : b]
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• starting index • end index

• zero based index • excluding the bth character

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STRING OPERATORS
• Combines two strings by the “+” operator

str1 + str2

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• To combine the same string several times repetitively, use “*”

str1 * 3

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format() …(1)
• Combines numerals to strings through placeholders

str = “My Birthdate is on { 0 }/{ 1 }/{ 2 }”

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print( str.format (birthDate, birthMonth, birthyear) )

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format() …(2)

str = “My Birthdate is on { date }/{ month}/{ year }”

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print( str.format (date = 1, month = 1, year = 2000) )

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STRING FUNCTIONS

lower() Converts the string to lowercase str.lower()

islower() Checks if the string is in lowercase str.islower()
upper() Converts the string to uppercase str.upper()
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strip() Removes the leading and trailing str.strip()

whitespaces in a string
replace() Replaces a string with another string str.replace(str1, str2)
split() Splits a string by a given separator str.split(separator)
find() Returns the first occurrence of a string str.find(string)
to be found within another string
isdigit() Checks if all characters are numeric str.isdigit()

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