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Python Stringunit 3

In Python, a string is a sequence of characters enclosed in quotes, created using single or double quotes. Multi-line strings can be defined with triple quotes, and strings are indexed sequences allowing access to specific characters and slicing to extract portions. The document provides examples of string creation, accessing characters, and slicing techniques.

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Python Stringunit 3

In Python, a string is a sequence of characters enclosed in quotes, created using single or double quotes. Multi-line strings can be defined with triple quotes, and strings are indexed sequences allowing access to specific characters and slicing to extract portions. The document provides examples of string creation, accessing characters, and slicing techniques.

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Python String

In Python, a string is a sequence of characters enclosed in quotes. It can include letters, numbers,
symbols or spaces. Since Python has no separate character type, even a single character is treated as
a string with length one. Strings are widely used for text handling and manipulation.

Creating a String

Strings can be created using either single ('...') or double ("...") quotes. Both behave the same.

Example: Creating two equivalent strings one with single and other with double quotes.

s1 = 'GfG' # single quote

s2 = "GfG" # double quote

print(s1)

print(s2)

Output

GfG

GfG

Multi-line Strings

Use triple quotes ('''...''' ) or ( """...""") for strings that span multiple lines. Newlines are preserved.

Example: Define and print multi-line strings using both styles.

Accessing characters in String

Strings are indexed sequences. Positive indices start at 0 from the left; negative indices start at -
1 from the right as represented in below image:
Example 1: Access specific characters through positive indexing.

s = "GeeksforGeeks"

print(s[0]) # first character

print(s[4]) # 5th character

String Slicing

Slicing is a way to extract a portion of a string by specifying the start and end indexes. The syntax for
slicing is string[start:end], where start starting index and end is stopping index (excluded).

Example: In this example we are slicing through range and reversing a string.

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