More broadly, this is true for all Python string methods that change a string's content, e.g. replace, strip, translate, lower / upper, join,... You must assign their output to something if you want to …

Aug 9, 2010 · 571 Does Python have a string contains substring method? 99% of use cases will be covered using the keyword, in, which returns True or False:

158 Assuming you're using Python's logging module, you can pass the string formatting arguments as arguments to the .debug() method rather than doing the formatting yourself:

52 The Python documentation notes the difference between the three methods. str.isdigit Return true if all characters in the string are digits and there is at least one character, false otherwise. …

583 There is a string, for example. EXAMPLE. How can I remove the middle character, i.e., M from it? I don't need the code. I want to know: Do strings in Python end in any special …

Oct 1, 2016 · All string characters are unicode literal in Python 3; as a consequence, since str.split() splits on all white space characters, that means it splits on unicode white space …

Aug 31, 2016 · And just for completeness, Java is like Python in that the String.substring () method takes start and one-past-end. This one just bit me hard, I had assumed it was length …

lstrip, rstrip and strip remove characters from the left, right and both ends of a string respectively. By default they remove whitespace characters (space, tabs, linebreaks, etc)

I would like to use the .replace function to replace multiple strings. I currently have string.replace("condition1", "") but would like to have something like …

Nov 12, 2017 · 104 Since Python's strings are immutable, it's inefficient to edit them repeatedly in loops. How can I use a mutable data structure to implement string operations, so as to avoid …