String.py

r'That is Carol\s cat' #raw string. The slash are interprent as part of the string

#Till the next triple quotes everything is interpreted
#as string (backslashes, new line...). Nothing needs to be escaped
"""Dear...
Today I've been....
Regards,
Fabio"""

##########################
#strings: similar to list
name[0]
name[1:4}
name[-1]

'fa' in name

for i in name :
    print(name[i])

##but string are immutable in python!! They cannot be changed. To modify a string
##I need to create a new string
name = 'Fabio'
newName = name + ' Ciampi'

##########################
count = {}
pprint.pprint(count)
pprint.pformat(count) #returns a string, instead of printing

####################

spam = 'Hello'
spam = spam.upper()
spam.isupper()
'Hello'.isupper()

isalpha()
isdecimal()
istitle()

'Ciao Fabio'.startswith('Fab')
'Ciao Fabio'.endswith('Fab')

#concatenation
spam = 'hello' + ' fabio'

#join strings, using the provided separator
','.join('uno', 'due', 'tre')

#split strings
 myList = 'My name is Fabio'.split()
 myList = 'My name is Fabio'.split('m')

#padding
'Hello'.rjust(10) #pad the string to make it lenght 10
'Hello'.ljust(10) #pad the string to make it lenght 10
'Hello'.rjust(10, '*') #define the padding character
'Hello'.center(10)

#stripping
spam.strip() #returns a string without spaces
spam.lstrip()
spam.rstrip('=') #remove from the right one specific char

#replace
spam = 'Hello world'
spam.replace('e', 'bla')


#copy/paste to clipboard
import pyperclip
pyperclip.copy("Hello") #writes to the clipboard
pyperclip.paste()       #get the content of the clipboard

#string formatting
name = 'fabio'
local = 'johnny'
'Hello %s, do you come at %s?' % (name, local)