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 …

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 …

Actually that PEP says "In Python 3.0, the % operator is supplemented by a more powerful string formatting method" and that it is backported to Python 2.6. Where I come from "supplemented" …

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: log.debug("some debug …

Sep 17, 2012 · For handling a few strings in separate variables, see How do I append one string to another in Python?. For the opposite process - creating a list from a string - see How do I split a …

How do I pad a numeric string with zeroes to the left, so that the string has a specific length?

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 …

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 …

I'm working with Python, and I'm trying to find out if you can tell if a word is in a string. I have found some information about identifying if the word is in the string - using .find, but is there a way to do an if …