Working with String Methods - PythonIn our last article we left off discussing ways to manipulate strings in Python, like concatenating, repeating, escape characters, and so forth. In this episode we will pick up where we left off and learn some more ways to work with strings, starting with the comparison method.
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There are many built-in string methods in Python. We will cover a few of them here, and all of them in a future article. A method saves the programmer from having to program the same code over and over again. Instead of typing a bunch of code to say, count the number of a's in a string, all the programmer has to do is call the appropriate method. In the following example, we are going to find out how many times each vowel appears in a string. Type the following into your python shell command prompt: book='It was a dark and stormy night, the wind blowing through the trees, and somewhere, out there in the far off teinkling of city lights, Britney Spears was busy being a bad mother...' book.count('a') book.count('e') book.count('i') book.count('o') book.count('u') book.count('y') The method will count each of the vowels and return a result, like the one below: >>> book.count('a') 10 >>> book.count('e') 15 >>> book.count('i') 10 >>> book.count('o') 8 >>> book.count('u') 3 >>> book.count('y') 4 We can also count words within the document, like so: >>> book.count('the') 5 >>> book.count('and') 2 >>> book.count('was') 2
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