--Originally published at TC101 – Peaz Cooper
Well well well! First of all! Ask yourself the following questions:
What is a string? How can you create it? Am I Pinnochio? Together we will learn the answers to these awesome and mind-blowing questions!
We can create them simply by enclosing characters in quotes. Python treats single quotes the same as double quotes. Creating strings is as simple as assigning a value to a variable.
var1 = 'Hello World!' var2 = "Python Programming"
Python does not support a character type; these are treated as strings of length one, thus also considered a substring.
To access substrings, use the square brackets for slicing along with the index or indices to obtain your substring.
#!/usr/bin/python var1 = 'Hello World!' var2 = "Python Programming" print "var1[0]: ", var1[0] print "var2[1:5]: ", var2[1:5] (WIKI)