10 Python String Methods With Usage

Python string methods help you work with strings. These ten methods mostly people ask in interviews and popular as well. Here’s my previous post on 7 daily use python string functions.

Here’s a fact on method and function in Python – Maybe it’s an interview question. People often get confused between a method and a function. The fact is, in Python, there is a difference between these two.

Functions have parenthesis and arguments, and when these functions get associated with an object, they become a method.

Python string methods

#1: help()

a=”my own string”

b=help(a.upper)
print(b)

Result: None

#2: find()

a=”my own string”

b=a.find(‘own’)
print(b)

Result: 3 (index)

#3: upper()

a=”my own string”

b=a.upper()
print(b

Result: MY OWN STRING (converts to upper case)

#4: lower()

a=”my OWN string”

b=a.lower()
print(b)

Result: my own string (converts to lower)

#5: strip()

a=”my Own String”

b=a.strip(‘my’)
print(b)

Resut: Own String (it strips only edges)

#6: replace()

a=”my Own String”

b=a.replace(‘my’, ‘This is’)
print(b)

Result: This is Own String (it replaces a portion of string)

#7: split()

a = ‘My Own String’
b= a.split()
print(b)

Result: [‘My’, ‘Own’, ‘String’]

#8: join()

Check out how to use join method in python.

#9: in and out

a = ‘My Own String’
b= ‘My’ in a
print(b)

Result : True

a = ‘My Own String’
b= ‘My’ not in a
print(b)

Result: False

#10: endswith()

a = ‘My Own String’
b= a.endswith(‘String’)
print(b)

Result: True