In this article you would learn basics of string manipulation with Python. To understand it better lets have a look at the table below:

As shown in the table, our string is “PYTHON” and each of the character is positioned from 0 to 5 (note the numbering starts from zero). Now we can do lot of things with this string using python code. Here is some of it for you to get going, have a look. Each line of code is followed by a # or comment explaining what each line of code does.

x='PYTHON' #assign the string “Python” to variable x
length_of_string = len(x) #gives the length of the string
print ('No of characters in string PYTHON are:')
print (length_of_string) # print the value of length_of_string
#string slicing: take part of string out
print (x[1:4]) # starting from 1st till 4th but excluding 4th
print (x[2:]) # starting from 2nd till end
print (x[:4]) # starting from start till 4th but excluding 4th
print (x+ " is awesome !") # string concatenation

Try yourself now, copy the code in blue font above and paste in the code window below and then press run. Feel free to experiment with the code.

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