Welcome to Python Level 1

Lesson 5

String Operations (Part 1)

Key Concepts Breakdown

● What is String?
● Difference between String and numeric data
● String formatting methods
● Basic String operations
What is String?
String is a sequence of characters which includes:
Coding time!!
- letters (A-Z, a-z) Assign your name (in
string) to variable “name”
- numbers (0-9)
- other special characters (@#!$&?)
enclosed by single-quotes (‘ ‘) or double-quotes (“ “). Example of Strings

“Jonathan”
Which of your personal
informations are in String “Python is the best”
data types?
“2022 this year“
”pyth0n@#!$&_pa$$word”
Numeric Data VS. String Data
Operations Numeric (int or float) String

15 + 16 31 “1516”
“15” + “16”

15 * 3 45 “151515”
“15” * 3

Interpret as
Students need to String Concatenation
differentiate which data
types to use
Basic Mathematical Operation
(Add (+), Multiply (*))
String Formatting
In Python, we have different methods to format the output for display
purpose as below:

1. Using escape sequence

2. Using multiple-line String with (‘’’)
3. Using placeholder - int (%d), float (%f), string (%s)

For float, you may use

%.2f to restrict the
output as 2 decimal points
String Formatting - Escape Sequence
Using escape sequence, \n within the double-quotes (“ ”)

Python Syntax

Example Output
String Formatting - Multi-line Strings
Using multi-line strings, enclosed with triple single-quote (‘’’ ‘’’)

Python Syntax

Example Output
String Formatting - Placeholder
Using placeholder, int (%d), float (%f), string (%s)

Python Syntax

Example Output
String Operations
String data type in Python comes with many built-in functions as table below:
String Operations - How to apply?
Coding time!
Type the code out in editor
and fill in the blanks

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Display result
Question 1:

Write a Python program to create a new string from an

input string’s first, middle and last character.
Hint:
1. String consists of many characters, each character Example Output
can be referenced by index number [ ].
2. You have to use len(string) to find the last index
number.
Question 1 Hint

Index = 0
Index = 6

If you want to find “h”, you have to use the code

Question 1 Reference Code

Find the first

character using
index 0

?? Find the length

of the string
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Use the first char +
mid char + last char
using index
Question 2:

Write a Python program to display the first character in

uppercase and all the other character from user’s input
to lowercase.
Hint:
1. Take input from users
2. Change the string to lowercase
3. Change only first character to uppercase Example Output
Question 2 Hint
Take input from user and display it out
- Use variable = input() and print() statement

Change the variable all characters to lower case

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- Use variable.lower()

Change first char to upper case and assign to new variable

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- Use variable[0].upper()

String concatenation → add the first char to remaining char using

variable[1:], start from index = 1 (second char)