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Python String Worksheet

This document provides examples of string manipulation in Python including indexing and slicing strings, concatenating strings, checking case, finding length and contents of strings, and iterating through strings. Key concepts covered are indexing strings from position 0, slicing portions of strings, joining strings with +, using upper(), lower(), isalpha(), isdigit(), len(), and for loops to iterate through each character.

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Python String Worksheet

This document provides examples of string manipulation in Python including indexing and slicing strings, concatenating strings, checking case, finding length and contents of strings, and iterating through strings. Key concepts covered are indexing strings from position 0, slicing portions of strings, joining strings with +, using upper(), lower(), isalpha(), isdigit(), len(), and for loops to iterate through each character.

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STRING WORKSHEET 1

(STUDY AND SOLVE)

Strings
A string is a sequence of characters. You can loop through the characters in a string, unlike an
integer or real number. These exercises will help you manipulate strings for your programming.

Indexing and slicing strings


The index of a string is a position compared to the rest. Programming languages often start counting
at 0, so the first character in a string is position 0. To slice a string is to take a portion of it, from the
front, middle or end.

Lets take an example

pizza = “Hawaiian”

Position 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

String characters H a w a i i a n
1. Match the code with the correct output

Code Answer Output


print(pizza[0]) wa
print(pizza[:5]) a
print(pizza[0:2]) Hawai
print(“pizza[6]”) Hawaiian
print(pizza) H
print(pizza[6]) aiian
print(pizza[2:4]) pizza[6]
print(pizza[3:]) Ha
2. Write a program to ask the user for their full name. It should output:
a. The whole name
b. the first character
c. the first 5 characters
d. the fourth, fifth and sixth characters

Concatenating strings
This means joining multiple strings together. A plus symbol (+) is used in Python.

greeting = “Hello”
name = “Elizabeth”

3. Match the code with the correct output

Code Output
print(greeting + name) error
print(greeting + ““ + name) Hi Elizabeth
print(“Hi “ + name) Elizabeth Elizabeth
print(Hi + name) HelloElizabeth
print(name + ““ + name) ElizabethElizabeth
print(name * 2) Hello liz
print(greeting+ ““ + name[1:4]) Hello Elizabeth
4. Create a program which asks for a name, adjective, noun, verb and adverb. It will then
output silly sentence back to the user, including the words input.

Case conversion
You can check if a user has entered in data in the expected case (UPPER or lower).

The syntax is:

varname.upper() or varname().lower

For example:
name = “Elizabeth”
print (name.UPPER())
>>>„ELIZABETH‟
5. Write a program which asks for a name.
a. It returns the name in lower case
b. It returns the name in UPPER case
c. It returns the name with the first letter as UPPER case and the rest lower (You will
need to use string slicing as above)
6. Write a program that asks for a letter. It should check which case the letter is and return a
message to tell the user. You will need to use an IF statement.

Find the length of a string


The len() function returns an integer – the number of items in a sequence, such as a string, list or
dictionary.

The syntax is:


name = “Elizabeth”
print (len(name))
>>>9

7. Write a program which asks for a username of 6 characters in length. It should check the
length of the data input and tell the user whether they have entered six characters or not.

Checking the contents of a string


You can use str.isalpha()to check if it contains only letters and str.isdigit() to check if
it contains only numbers. ‘str’ is the name of the string and is likely to be a variable. These methods
are Boolean expressions and will therefore return Trueor False.

username = “6666ML”

8. Match the code with the correct output:

Code Output
print(“Billy”.isalpha()) True
print(username.isalpha()) True
print(username[0].isdigit()) False
print(username[5].isalpha()) True
9. Edit your program which asks for a username. It should check that the first four characters
are alpha and the fifth and sixth are digits.
Finding data in strings
It is very similar to English to check if a value occurs within a string. Trueor False will be returned
when you ask Python if a string contains a value.

name = “Elizabeth”
letter = “f”
print (“E”inname)
True
print (letterinname)
False

Iterating through strings


Repeating instructions, or iteration, is often a more efficient method of coding. A ‘loop’ is created
where certain instructions are executed and the program returns back to the beginning of the loop.

If you want to perform an action on each letter of the string, you can use a ‘for’ loop. These are used
when you know how many iterations you need to do at the beginning of the loop.

name = “Elizabeth”
for letter inname:
print (letter.upper()*5)
>>>EEEEE
>>>LLLLL
>>>IIIII
>>>ZZZZZ #etc
password = “qWerTy”
newstring = ““
for letter inpassword:
if letter.islower() == True:
newstring +=letter #Append letter to newstring
print(newstring)
>>>‟qery‟

10. Why does the program output ‘qery’? Describe what the program does.

11. Write a program which asks for a string of data. It will code the data by substituting some of the
characters. Make it as complicated as possible! Here are some ideas:
a. Make the first character uppercase
b. Replace vowels with the next one. A is replaced by E, E by I etc.
c. Replace all occurrences of S or s with $
d. Replace all numbers 1-4 with double the number

Example:

password1234 would become Pe$$wurd2468

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