Python Strings

Dr.Harish D. Gadade
 Strings in Python
● Python String ● Immutable Strings

● Str Class ● String Operators: +,*

● Basic Inbuilt functions((len,min,max) ● String Comparisons

● Index[] Operators

● Slicing of String

● Traversing String using for and while loop

● Traversing a String
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 Python Strings
● Characters are building blocks of Python.A word is composed of a
sequence of characters, when a sequence of characters are grouped
together, a meaningful string is created, thus a string is a sequence
of characters treated as a single unit.
● In many programming languages, strings are treated as array of
characters but in Python, a string is an object of the str class.
● String has many constructors.

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 String Class
● Strings are the object of the str class.
● When we create a string using the constructor of str class as

s1=str() # Create an empty string object

s2=str(“I Like Python Programming”)

● An alternate way to create a string object is by assigning a string

value to a variable.

s1=””
s2=”I Like Python Programming”
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 Basic Inbuilt Python Functions
● Python has several basic inbuilt functions that can be used with
strings.
● len(), min(), max()

s=”PYTHON”
print(len(s))
print(min(s))
print(max(s))

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 Index[] Operator
● As a string is a sequence of characters, the characters in a string
can be accessed one at a time through the index operators.
● The first character of the string is stored at 0th index and last
will be stored at a position one less than that of length of the
strings.
● We can also use negative indexing to access the string

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 Index[] Operator

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 String Slicing
● We can return a range of characters by using the slice syntax.
● Specify the start index and the end index, separated by a colon, to
return a part of the string.

# Slicing
s="I LOVE PYTHON"
print(s[:6])
print(s[:])
print(s[::-1])
print(s[-1:-7:-1])

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 Traversing String with for and
while loop
● A programmer can use the for loop and while loop to traverse string as

s="I LOVE PYTHON" s="I LOVE PYTHON" s="PYTHON"

for ch in s: for ch in range(0,len(s)): for ch in range(0,len(s),2):
print(ch,end="") print(s[ch],end="") print(s[ch],end="")

s="I LOVE PYTHON"

i=0
while i<len(s):
print(s[i],end="")
i=i+1

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 Immutable strings
● Strings are immutable sequence of characters.

s="PYTHON"
s[0]="T"
print(s)

● It will provide an error as.

TypeError: 'str' object does not support item assignment

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 String Operators: +, *, in, not in
● The + operator used to concatenate two strings
s1="PYTHON"
s2="PROGRAMMING" PYTHONPROGRAMMING
print(s1+s2)

● The * operator is used to concatenate the same string multiple times.

It is also called repetition operator
s1="PYTHON"
print(s1*3) PYTHONPYTHONPYTHON

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 String Operators: +, *, in, not in
● In and not in operators are used to check whether a string is present
in another string or not

s="I LOVE PYTHON"

print("LOVE" in s) TRUE
print("PUNE" not in s) TRUE

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 String Comparisons
● String Comparison: ==, <, >, <=, >= !=

s1="PYTHON"
s2="PUNE" False
print(s1==s2) True

print(s1>s2) python
True
print(s1.lower())
print(s1!=s2)

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