String in Python Programming Language

September 16, 2023

Strings in Python

String data-type in Python programming language is used to store the string values in a variable. The string is the only data type in python as a character in Java and C. In python characters are also treated as a string and are referred to as a string of length 1. The string is an immutable data type in python means we can’t append or remove item or element from the string variable

String data-type in Python Programming Language

Strings in the python programming language is a string data-type. We can perform many operations on String although strings are immutable we cannot append or remove elements from the string, but instead, we can initialize a new string and add elements to it. Strings are iterable and have indexes same as of array or list in python starting from 0. We can iterate strings in negative order starting with -1 as nth position and ending to -n + 1st position or at 0th index.

In-built functions in String

Python is a library rich language. For almost every operation you want to perform in python there are more chances that you might get a per-defined function for it. Some in-built functions for string data-type in the python programming language are:

len()
join()
count()
upper()
lower()
replace()

etc.

Important built-in functions

Function	Description
len()	Length of the string
count()	Number of times a element is present in a string
isalpha()	Returns true if the characters of the string are alphabetic
isdigit()	Returns true if the characters of the string are digit.
join()	Join the elements of strings at the end.
lower()	Converts the string to lower case.
upper()	Converts the string to upper case.
replace()	Returns the string with replaced sub-part.

Operations on Strings

Let’s discuss some operations on string by code:

Run

#user input of string
Var = input('Enter a string :')
print(Var)

#initialize an string
String = 'PrepInsta'
String1 = "PrepInsta"
String2 = '''PrepInsta'''
#print String
print(String)
print(String1)
print(String2)

#Length of String
length = len(String)
print(length)

#slicing in String
print(String[0:5])
print(String[:4])
print(String[2:])
print(String[-7:-2])

#printing reverse of string using slicing
print(String[::-1])

#iterating through string using for loop
for i in String:
    print(i,end=" ")
print()

#Concatenation of String
print(String + String1)
print(String[0:4] + 'shake')

Output:
Enter a string :String
String
PrepInsta
PrepInsta
PrepInsta
9
PrepI
Prep
epInsta
epIns
atsnIperP
P r e p I n s t a 
PrepInstaPrepInsta
Prepshake

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