strings

Python Strings

Strings are built-in data type for text representation. They are sequence of characters and can include letters, numbers, and symbols. The following features characterizes strings.

1. Immutable: String doesn’t allow modification for individual sub-string or characters after string has been created.

2. Hetergenous: Different kinds of characters can be stored in strings such as numbers, letters, or symbols.

3. Ordered: Strings maintain the order characters when was created

Creating a string

A string can be created by placing a sequence of characters single quote '', double quote "" or multi-line string '''.

example of creating a string

  programming_lang = "Python"

  print(programming_lang) # outputs: Python