{"id":185,"date":"1997-06-30T10:52:26","date_gmt":"1997-06-30T10:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/python-tutorials.com\/?p=185"},"modified":"2022-01-29T02:24:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T01:24:20","slug":"strings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geek-university.com\/python\/strings\/","title":{"rendered":"Strings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Strings<\/strong>\u00a0in Python can be\u00a0used to store a contiguous set of characters. To define a string, you simple type the characters within single or double quotes. For example, newString = ‘Hello world!’<\/em> will store that string of characters (Hello world!<\/em>) in the variable called newString<\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n

>>> newString = 'Hello world!'\r\n>>> print (newString)\r\nHello world!<\/pre>\n
You will get the same result if you use the double quotes to define a string:<\/span><\/p>\n
>>> newString = \"Hello world!\"\r\n>>> print(newString)\r\nHello world!<\/pre>\n
The reason why both forms are used is so you can embed a quote character of the other type inside a string. For example, you may embed a single-quote character in a string enclosed in double-quote characters:<\/span><\/p>\n
>>> newString = \"Mark's car\"\r\n>>> print(newString)\r\nMark's car<\/pre>\n
Note that you can not perform numeric operations with string variables, even if the string stored in the variable consists only of numbers. Consider the following example:<\/span><\/p>\n
>>> x = '5'\r\n>>> y = '3'\r\n>>> print(x + y)\r\n53<\/pre>\n
The +<\/strong> operator concatenates two strings. To perform an arithmetic operation, we need to convert the string variables to integer or floating-point variables:<\/span><\/p>\n
>>> x = int('5')\r\n>>> y = int('3')\r\n>>> print(x + y)\r\n8<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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