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Interesting facts about strings in Python
In this article, we will learn about some Interesting facts about strings in Python 3.x. Or earlier.
- Immutability
- Auto-detection of escape sequences
- Direct slicing
- Indexed access
Immutability
This means that there is no permission of modification on <string>type and we only have read only access to the strings.
Example
inp = 'Tutorials point' # output print(inp) # assigning a new value to a particular index in a string inp[0] = 't' print(inp) # raises an error
Output
TypeError: 'str' object does not support item assignment
Auto-detection of escape sequences
The strings containing backslash are automatically detected as an escape sequence.
Example
inp = 'Tutorials point' # output print(inp+”\n”+”101”)
Output
Tutorials point 101
Direct slicing
We all are aware of substring method in c or c+ +, Slicing does the same operation in python. it takes two compulsory and 1 optional argument. Compulsory arguments are start index (included) and end index(not included) Optional argument is the step or say increment or decement value. By default it is 1.
Example
inp = 'Tutorials point' # output print(inp[0:5])
Output
Tutor
Indexed access
As all elements are stored in a contiguous format, therefore we can access elements directly by the help of index.
Example
inp = 'Tutorials point' # output print(inp[0]+inp[1])
Output
Tu
Conclusion
In this article, we learnt about Interesting facts about strings in Python 3.x. Or earlier.
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