3.string Slicing and Other Functions in Python

String Slicing And Other Functions In Python
Strings
String is a data type in Python. Strings in Python programming language are arrays of
bytes representing a sequence of characters. In simple terms, Strings are the combination or
collection of characters enclosed in quotes.
Primarily, you will find 3 types of strings in Python :
 Single Quote String – (‘Single Quote String’)

 Double Quote String – (“Double Quote String”)
 Triple Quote String – (‘’’ Triple Quote String ‘’’)
Let us now look into some functions you will use to manipulate or perform operations on
strings.
len() Function : This len() function returns the total no. of characters in a string. E.g. for
string a="abc", len(a) will return 3 as the output as it is a string variable containing 3
characters
Strings are one of the most used data types in any programming language because most of the
real-world data such as name, address, or any sequence which contains alphanumeric
characters are mostly of type ‘String’.
E.g. Consider this string variable x
x = "String Demo"
This string variable x contains a string containing 11 characters (including spaces). Since the
index in a string starts from 0 to length-1, this string can be looked at as:
Note: The indexes of a string begin from 0 to (length-1) in the forward direction and -1,-2,-3,
…, -length in the backward direction.
String Slicing :
As we know the meaning of the word ‘slice’ is ‘a part of’. I am sure you have sliced paneer
cubes at home!
Just like paneer slice refers to the part of the paneer cube; In Python, the term ‘string slice’
refers to a part of the string, where strings are sliced using a range of indices.
To do string slicing we just need to put the name of the string followed by [n:m]. It means ‘n’
denotes the index from which slicing should start and ‘m’ denotes the index at which slicing
should terminate or complete. Let's look into an example!
In Python, string slicing s[n:m] for a string s is done as characters of s from n to m-1. It
means characters are taken from the first index to second index-1.
For E.g. abc="Demo" then abc[0:3] will give ‘Dem’ and will not give ‘Demo’ coz index
number of ‘D’ is 0, ‘e’ is 1, ‘m’ is 2, and ‘o’ is 3. So it will give a range from n to m-1 i.e. 0
to 3-1=2. That’s why we got output ‘Dem’.
In string slicing, we sometimes need to give a skip value i.e. string[n:m:skip_value]. This
simply takes every skip_valueth character. By default, the skip value is 1 but if we want to
choose alternate characters of a string then we can give it as 2. Have a look at the example
below:
Let's end this tutorial by looking into some of the most used string functions :
 string.endswith(): This function allows the user to check whether a given string ends
with passed argument or not. It returns True or False.
 string.count(): This function counts the total no. of occurrence of any character in the
string. It takes the character whose occurrence you want to find as an argument.
 string.capitalize(): This function capitalizes the first character of any string. It doesn’t
take any argument.
 string.upper(): It returns the copy of the string converted to the uppercase.
 string.lower(): It returns the copy of the string converted to lower case.
 string.find(): This function finds any given character or word in the entire string. It
returns the index of first character from that word.
 string.replace(“old_word”, “new_word”): This function replaces the old word or
character with a new word or character from the entire string.
 # String Functions:

 demo = "Aakash is a good boy"

 print(demo.endswith("boy"))
 print(demo.count('o'))
 print(demo.capitalize())
 print(demo.upper())
 print(demo.lower())
 print(demo.find("is")
 print(demo.find("good","nice"))

 I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. If you have any questions, make sure to post it in the
QnA. Let us now move into the next topic Lists, which is also one of the most used
data types in the python programming language
Code file as described in the video
mystr = "Harry is a good boy"

# print(len(mystr))
# print(mystr[::-2])
print(mystr.endswith("bdoy"))
print(mystr.count("o"))
print(mystr.capitalize())
print(mystr.replace("is", "are"))

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Primarily, you will find 3 types of strings in Python :

 Single Quote String – (‘Single Quote String’)

E.g. Consider this string variable x

 demo = "Aakash is a good boy"

Code file as described in the video

mystr = "Harry is a good boy"

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