Dec 14, 2010 · For handling multiple strings in a list, see How to concatenate (join) items in a list to a single string. See How do I put a variable’s value inside a string (interpolate it into the string)? if …

Aug 31, 2016 · And just for completeness, Java is like Python in that the String.substring () method takes start and one-past-end. This one just bit me hard, I had assumed it was length like every other …

%s indicates a conversion type of string when using Python's string formatting capabilities. More specifically, %s converts a specified value to a string using the str() function.

lstrip, rstrip and strip remove characters from the left, right and both ends of a string respectively. By default they remove whitespace characters (space, tabs, linebreaks, etc)

There are two types of string in Python 2: the traditional str type and the newer unicode type. If you type a string literal without the u in front you get the old str type which stores 8-bit characters, and with the …

158 Assuming you're using Python's logging module, you can pass the string formatting arguments as arguments to the .debug() method rather than doing the formatting yourself:

Two string variables are set to the same value. s1 == s2 always returns True, but s1 is s2 sometimes returns False. If I open my Python interpreter and do the same is comparison, it succeeds: >&...

Does Python have something like an empty string variable where you can do: if myString == string.empty: Regardless, what's the most elegant way to check for empty string values? I find hard …

Feb 7, 2014 · I am somewhat of a python/programming newbie, and I have just been playing around with string slicing. So the simple string reverse method of string[::-1] works just fine as we know, but …

I noticed a Python script I was writing was acting squirrelly, and traced it to an infinite loop, where the loop condition was while line is not ''. Running through it in the debugger, it turned ou...