Strings
String is data type that stores a sequence of
characters.
Basic
Operations
concatenation
“helloworld”
“hello” +
“world”
length of
str
len(str)
Indexing
Apna_Colle
ge
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11
str = “Apna_College”
str[0] is ‘A’, str[1] is ‘p’ ...
str[0] = ‘B’ #not allowed
Slicing
Accessing parts of a string
str[ starting_idx : ending_idx ] #ending idx is not included
str = “ApnaCollege”
str[ 1 : 4 ] is “pna”
str[ : 4 ] is same as
str[ 0 : 4]
str[ 1 : ] is same
as str[ 1 : len(str) ]
Slicing
Negative Index
Apple
-5 -4 -3 - 2 -1
str = “Apple”
str[ -3 : -1 ] is “pl”
String Functions
str = “I am a coder.”
[Link](“er.“) #returns true if string ends with substr
[Link]( ) #capitalizes 1st char
[Link]( old, new ) #replaces all occurrences of old with new
[Link]( word ) #returns 1st index of 1st occurrence
[Link](“am“) #counts the occurrence of substr in string
Let‘s Practice
WAP to input user’s first name & print its
length.
WAP to find the occurrence of ‘3’ in a
String.
Conditional
Statements
if-elif-else
(SYNTAX)
if(condition) :
Statement1
elif(condition):
Statement2
else:
Statem
entN
Conditional
Statements
Grade students based on
marks
marks >= 90, grade = “A”
90 > marks >= 80, grade =
“B”
80 > marks >= 70, grade =
“C” 70 > marks, grade = “D”
Let‘s Practice
WAP to check if a number entered by the user is odd or
even.
WAP to find the greatest of 3 numbers entered by the
user.
WAP to check if a number is a multiple of 7 or
not.
