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===Strings=== | |||
==== Strings are a lot like lists==== | |||
== | >>> my_string = "Hello World" | ||
>>> my_string[0] | |||
=== | 'H' | ||
>>> my_string[:5] | |||
'Hello' | |||
>>> my_string[6:] | |||
'World' | |||
>>> my_string = my_string[:6] + "Jessica" | |||
>>> my_string | |||
'Hello Jessica' | |||
>>> 'H' in my_string | |||
True | |||
==== Formatting strings ==== | ==== Formatting strings ==== | ||
>>> x = 1 | >>> x = 1 | ||
>>> y = 1.234 | >>> y = 1.234 | ||
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>>> w = "elevator" | >>> w = "elevator" | ||
>>> all_together_now = "You can put ints like %d, floating point numbers like %f, boolean values like %s, and other strings like %s into a string without changing them to strings first!" % (x,y,z,w) | >>> all_together_now = "You can put ints like %d, floating point numbers like %f, boolean values like %s, and other strings like %s into a string without changing them to strings first!" % (x,y,z,w) | ||
==== Dealing with whitespace ==== | ==== Dealing with whitespace ==== | ||
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'this is a text string with lots of extra spaces' | 'this is a text string with lots of extra spaces' | ||
== New concepts for Week 3 exercises and challenges == | |||
==== Tuples ==== | ==== Tuples ==== |