Strings

• Slicing
  • Literally taking a slice out of a string and returning it.

    name = 'My name is Super Alice'
    

• To get the first character of the string, we can do: name[0] = M
• Second character, name[1] = y.
• To get the first 7 characters, we can do:

  name[0:7]
  

• This outputs to 'My name'
  • It gets all of the character up to index 7.
  • There is also shorthand with name[:7]
• If you want to get all of the characters from index 11 onwards, you can do name[11:]
• The slicing syntax is the same when you work with List as well.
  • myList = [1,2,3,4,5]
    • Can get a slice of that list, such as myList[2:4]
      • [3, 4]
• Can get the length of a string, for example len(name) = 24.
• len(myList) = 5.
  • Shows the 5 elements from the list.
• Formatting
  • String contention.
    • 'My number is: '+str(5)
    • Type in f which stands for format. f'My number is {5}'
    • Can also write expressions inside the curly braces.