Strings

Question 1

REPRESENTATION

Strings are represented as lists or tuples ??

Answer 1

Strings are represented as tuples of characters, which means they are inmutable objects.

Question 2

CONCATENATION

a = "foo"
b = "bar"

How do you concatenate strings a and b?

Answer 2

c = a + b

c = “foobar”

Question 3

MEMBERSHIP

a = "foo"
sentence = "I lo ve food"

How can you check if string a is part of sentence?

Answer 3

# The statement returns a boolean
a in sentence

Question 4

my_name = “Georcge Michael The Second”

How can you know how many characters are there in my_name?

Answer 4

#Use the built in function len()
num_char = len(my_name)

Question 5

my_string = “This is a sort of long string”

Get a list containing the different words in my_strind

Answer 5

#Use the built in function str.split()
my_string.split()

Question 6

my_string = “animales domesticos; animales de granja; animales salvajes”

Get a list containing the different kind of animals named in my_string

Answer 6

#Use the built in function str.split()
my_string.split("; ")