Strings can be considered index-based collections of smaller strings or characters, each one referenced by its position in the string. Furthermore, Python contains the notion of "slice-notation ...

This excludes the first and last characters of the original string, and returns the new string. You can also use this approach to remove the first or last character individually, by using a single ...

In Python, you can handle non-ASCII characters in a string by ensuring that your source file is encoded in UTF-8 and by using Unicode strings. Python 3 inherently supports Unicode, so strings can ...

This Python code compares two strings, text1 and text2, character by character using the zip() function to create pairs of corresponding characters and the enumerate() function to iterate through each ...

In my next article, I plan to look at Python 3 and how the upgrade can be tricky even when you know exactly when you want bytes and when you want characters. Basic Strings. Traditionally, Python ...