Strings

More on Strings

A string is usually a bit of text you want to display to someone or “export” out of the program you are writing.

Python knows you want something to be a string when you put either " (double quotes) or ' (single quotes) around the text. You saw this many times with your use of print() when you put the text you want to go to the string inside " or ' after the print. Then Python prints it.

Try the following exercise:

print ("Mary had a little lamb.")
print (f"Its fleece was white as {snow}"
print ("And everywhere that Mary went.")

print ("." * 10)  # what'd that do?

end1 = "C"
end2 = "h"
end3 = "e"
end4 = "e"
end5 = "s"
end6 = "e"
	   
end7 = "B"
end8 = "u"
end9 = "r"
end10 = "g"
end11 = "e"
end12 = "r"

print (end1 + end2 + end3 + end4 + end5 + end6)
print (end7 + end8 + end9 + end10 + end11 + end12)

days = "Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun"
months = "Jan\nFeb\nMar\nApr\nMay\nJun\nJul\nAug"

print("Here are the days: ", days)
print("Here are the months: ", months)
	   
print("""
There's something going on here.
With the three double- quotes.
We'll be able to type as much as we like.
Even 4 lines if we want, or 5, or 6.
""")

The \n in the code above is an “escape” sequence. It allows to make new lines.

Escape Sequences

This is the list of all the escape sequences Python supports. Also try them out in some strings to see if you can make them work.