String Operators - Python

If you have ever programmed before, or are a ninety-year-old lady, or a cat, then you know how useful strings are. If you have been reading these articles, you will know that a string is a character, a sentence, a paragraph, a book, etc. If you haven't been reading these articles, then you're missing an important part of your education as a programmer. Don't keep yourself in the dark; start reading!

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By: James Payne

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January 28, 2008

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TOOLS YOU CAN USE

There are several operators you can use on strings. Here is how some of them work:

#!/usr/local/bin/python

first ="James "

last ="Payne "

truth ="Is a bad mamma jamma"

print "Here is an example of concatenating string variables:"

print first+last+truth

print "n"

print "Here is another example of concatenating strings:"

print "I like it " + "When you call me " + "Big Poppan "

print "And here is an example of how to repeat text with variables:"

print first *3

print "You can also print it on three separate lines:"

print (first + "n") * 3

print "You can also concatenate and repeat (as we did above):"

print (first+last+truth+ "n") * 4

Note that I put a space in my strings. If I had not, the words would be bunched together. Here is the result:

Here is an example of concatenating string variables:

James Payne Is a bad mamma jamma

Here is another example of concatenating strings:

I like it When you call me Big Poppa

And here is an example of how to repeat text with variables:

James James James

You can also print it on three separate lines:

James

You can also concatenate and repeat (as we did above):

James Payne Is a bad mamma jamma

Well that's it for this tutorial. We still have more string-a-ma-things to cover, and we will do so in the next article. So come back often and get dat learn on son.

Till then...