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Python Strings Complete Notes

The document provides detailed notes on Python strings, explaining their characteristics as immutable sequences of Unicode characters. It covers string slicing, modification methods, concatenation, formatting options, escape characters, and frequently used string methods. Key features include examples and syntax for each topic, emphasizing the use of methods that return new strings due to immutability.

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Python Strings Complete Notes

The document provides detailed notes on Python strings, explaining their characteristics as immutable sequences of Unicode characters. It covers string slicing, modification methods, concatenation, formatting options, escape characters, and frequently used string methods. Key features include examples and syntax for each topic, emphasizing the use of methods that return new strings due to immutability.

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Python Strings - Easy & Detailed Notes

1. Python Strings
Strings are sequences of Unicode characters enclosed in single, double, or triple quotes.
Immutable: cannot be changed after creation.
Examples: 'Hello', "Hi", '''multi line'''. Indexing starts at 0; negative indexes from end.

2. Slicing Strings
Syntax: s[start:stop:step]. Start inclusive, stop exclusive. Cases: s[:], s[:5], s[2:], s[1:7:2], s[::-1]
(reverse), negative indexes: s[-5:-1], omitted values use defaults. Out-of-range indexes do not raise
errors.

3. Modify Strings
Since immutable, methods return new strings. Common: upper(), lower(), strip(), replace(), split(),
capitalize(), title(), swapcase(), casefold().

4. Concatenate Strings
Use + to join, * to repeat. Example: 'Py'+'thon'='Python'; 'Hi'*3='HiHiHi'. join() efficiently joins
iterable: ','.join(['a','b']).

5. Format Strings
Use f-strings: f'Name: {name}'. Expressions allowed: f'{2+3}'. Format specifiers: {pi:.2f}, {n:,},
{x:>10}, {x:<10}, {x:^10}. Also format() and % formatting (legacy).

6. Escape Characters
\\ backslash, \' single quote, \" double quote, \n newline, \t tab, \r carriage return, \b backspace. Raw
strings: r'C:\new\test' ignore escapes except ending backslash.

7. String Methods
Frequently used: len(), find(), index(), count(), startswith(), endswith(), isalpha(), isdigit(), isalnum(),
isspace(), split(), join(), replace(), strip(), lstrip(), rstrip(), upper(), lower(), title(), capitalize(),
swapcase(), center(), ljust(), rjust(), zfill(), encode(). Note: index() raises ValueError if not found;
find() returns -1.

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