Strings in python are surrounded by either single quotation marks, or double quotation marks.

You can display a string literal by using print()

Some Examples:

Assigning a string to a variable is done with the variable name followed by an equal sign and the string:

Some Examples:

You can assign a multiline string to a variable by using three quotes:

Some Examples: three double quotes

Some Examples: three single quotes

strings in Python are arrays of bytes representing unicode characters.

Some Examples: Get the character at position 7 (remember that the first character has the position 0):

Since strings are arrays, we can loop through the characters in a string, with a for loop.

Some Examples: Loop through the letters in the word "Grape":

To get the length of a string, use the len() function.

Some Examples: The len() function returns the length of a string:

To check if a certain phrase or character is present in a string, we can use the keyword in

Some Examples: Check if "movie" is present in the following text:

Some Examples: Using an if statement:

To check if a certain phrase or character is NOT present in a string, we can use the keyword not in

Some Examples: Check if "Singer" is NOT present in the following text:

Some Examples: Using an if statement:

You have learned Python Strings in simple terms. Let's proceed on to Slicing Strings.