Function Description

format() It’s used to create a formatted string from the template string and the
supplied values.

split() Python string split() function is used to split a string into the list of strings
based on a delimiter.

join() This function returns a new string that is the concatenation of the strings in
iterable with string object as a delimiter.

strip() Used to trim whitespaces from the string object.

format_ma Python string format_map() function returns a formatted version of the

upper() We can convert a string to uppercase in Python using str.upper() function.

lower() This function creates a new string in lowercase.

replace() Python string replace() function is used to create a new string by replacing
some parts of another string.

find() Python String find() method is used to find the index of a substring in a
string.
translate() Python String translate() function returns a new string with each character
in the string replaced using the given translation table.

Good to Know String Functions

Function Description

encode() Python string encode() function is used to encode the string using the
provided encoding.

count() Python String count() function returns the number of occurrences of a

startswith() Python string startswith() function returns True if the string starts with the
given prefix, otherwise it returns False.

endswith() Python string endswith() function returns True if the string ends with the
given suffix, otherwise it returns False.

capitalize() Python String capitalize() function returns the capitalized version of the
string.

center() Python string center() function returns a centered string of specified size.

casefold() Python string casefold() function returns a casefolded copy of the string.
This function is used to perform case-insensitive string comparison.
expandtabs Python string expandtabs() function returns a new string with tab
() characters (\t) replaced with one or more whitespaces.

index() Python String index() function returns the lowest index where the
specified substring is found.

__contains_ Python String class has __contains__() function that we can use to check
_() if it contains another string or not. We can also use “in” operator to
perform this check.

Miscellaneous String Functions

Function Description

isalnum() Python string isalnum() function returns True if it’s made of alphanumeric
characters only.

isalpha() Python String isalpha() function returns True if all the characters in the
string are alphabets, otherwise False.

isdecimal Python String isdecimal() function returns True if all the characters in the
() string are decimal characters, otherwise False.

isdigit() Python String isdigit() function returns True if all the characters in the string
are digits, otherwise False.
isidentifie Python String isidentifier() function returns True if the string is a valid
r() identifier according to the Python language definition.

islower() Python String islower() returns True if all cased characters in the string are
lowercase and there is at least one cased character, otherwise it returns
False.

isnumeric Python String isnumeric() function returns True if all the characters in the
() string are numeric, otherwise False. If the string is empty, then this function
returns False.

isprintabl Python String isprintable() function returns True if all characters in the string
e() are printable or the string is empty, False otherwise.

isspace() Python String isspace() function returns True if there are only whitespace
characters in the string, otherwise it returns False.

istitle() Python String istitle() returns True if the string is title cased and not empty,
otherwise it returns False.

isupper() Python String isupper() function returns True if all the cased characters are
in Uppercase.

rjust(), Utility functions to create a new string of specified length from the source
ljust() string with right and left justification.

swapcas Python String swapcase() function returns a new string with uppercase
e() characters converted to lowercase and vice versa.
partition() Python String partition() function splits a string based on a separator into a
tuple with three strings.

splitlines( Python String splitlines() function returns the list of lines in the string.
)

title() Python String title() function returns a title cased version of the string.

zfill() Python String zfill(width) function returns a new string of specified width.
The string is filled with 0 on the left side to create the specified width.

Built-in Functions that work on String

Function Description

len() Python String length can be determined by using built-in len() function.

ascii() Python ascii() function returns the string representation of the object. This
function internally calls repr() function and before returning the
representation string, escapes the non-ASCII characters using \x, \u or \U
escapes.

bool() Python bool() function returns Boolean value for an object. The bool class
has only two instances – True and False.

bytearray Python bytearray() function returns a bytearray object that contains the
() array of bytes from the input source.
bytes() This function returns bytes object that is an immutable sequence of integers
in the range 0 <= x < 256.

ord() Python ord() function takes string argument of a single Unicode character
and return its integer Unicode code point value.

enumerat Python enumerate function takes a sequence, and then make each element
e() of the sequence into a tuple.

float() As the name says, python float() function returns a floating point number
from the input argument.

hash() This function returns the hash value of the given object.

id() Python id() function returns the “identity” of the object. The identity of an
object is an integer, which is guaranteed to be unique and constant for this
object during its lifetime.

int() Python int() function returns an integer object from the specified input. The
returned int object will always be in base 10.

map() Python map() function is used to apply a function on all the elements of
specified iterable and return map object.

print() Python print() function is used to print data into console.

type() This function returns the type of the object.