6 Python String Things I Regret Not Knowing Earlier

 

F-Strings for Formatting:

F-strings (formatted string literals), introduced in Python 3.6, are a concise and readable way to embed expressions inside string literals. They make string interpolation much easier.

name = "Alice"

age = 30

print(f"Name: {name}, Age: {age}")

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Name: Alice, Age: 30

String Methods:

Python’s string methods like strip(), replace(), and split() can save a lot of time and lines of code.

text = " Hello, World! "

print(text.strip())  

print(text.replace("World", "Python")) 

print(text.split(','))  

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Hello, World!

 Hello, Python! 

[' Hello', ' World! ']

Joining Lists into Strings:

Using the join() method to concatenate a list of strings into a single string is both efficient and convenient.

words = ["Python", "is", "awesome"]

sentence = " ".join(words)

print(sentence)  

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Python is awesome

Multiline Strings:

Triple quotes (''' or """) allow for easy multiline strings, which can be useful for writing long text or docstrings.

multiline_string = """

This is a

multiline string

in Python.

"""

print(multiline_string)

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This is a

multiline string

in Python.

String Slicing:

String slicing allows for extracting parts of a string. Understanding how to use slicing can simplify many tasks.

text = "Hello, World!"

print(text[7:12]) 

print(text[::-1])  

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World

!dlroW ,olleH

Using in for Substring Checks:

Checking if a substring exists within a string using the in keyword is simple and effective.

text = "The quick brown fox"

print("quick" in text)  # True

print("slow" in text)  # False

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True

False