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Python 3 Object-Oriented Programming - Second Edition

You're reading from   Python 3 Object-Oriented Programming - Second Edition Building robust and maintainable software with object oriented design patterns in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784398781
Length 460 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dusty Phillips Dusty Phillips
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Preface 1. Object-oriented Design FREE CHAPTER 2. Objects in Python 3. When Objects Are Alike 4. Expecting the Unexpected 5. When to Use Object-oriented Programming 6. Python Data Structures 7. Python Object-oriented Shortcuts 8. Strings and Serialization 9. The Iterator Pattern 10. Python Design Patterns I 11. Python Design Patterns II 12. Testing Object-oriented Programs 13. Concurrency Index

Strings


Strings are a basic primitive in Python; we've used them in nearly every example we've discussed so far. All they do is represent an immutable sequence of characters. However, though you may not have considered it before, "character" is a bit of an ambiguous word; can Python strings represent sequences of accented characters? Chinese characters? What about Greek, Cyrillic, or Farsi?

In Python 3, the answer is yes. Python strings are all represented in Unicode, a character definition standard that can represent virtually any character in any language on the planet (and some made-up languages and random characters as well). This is done seamlessly, for the most part. So, let's think of Python 3 strings as an immutable sequence of Unicode characters. So what can we do with this immutable sequence? We've touched on many of the ways strings can be manipulated in previous examples, but let's quickly cover it all in one place: a crash course in string theory!

String manipulation

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