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C 859: Introduction to Programming in Python
1.Slice Notation: my_str[start:end]
will create a substring from my_str index start through to end - 1
2.Slice Notation with Stride: my_str[start:end:stride]
3.Field Width: minimum number of characters that must be inserted into a string my_str='{name:16}{goals:8}'
4.Alignment Character: determines how a value should be aligned within the width of the field
my_str='[name:<16}{goals:>8}{points:^6}'
5.Fill Character: used to pad a replacement field when the string being inserted is smaller than the field width
{score:0>4} produces 0018
6.Floating-point Precision: format specification which indicates how many digits to the right of the decimal should
be included in the output of floating types '{:.1f}'.format(1.725) produces 1.7
7.Replace (old and new parameters): returns a copy of the string with all occur- rences of the substring old replaced
by the string new; old and new arguments may be string variables or string literals
phrase.replace('one', 'two') will replace any occurrence of the word one with two
8.Replace (old, new and count parameters): returns a copy of the string with all occurences of the substring old
replaced by the new except only replaces the first count occurrences of old
phrase.replace('one', 'two', 5) will replace any occurrances of 'one' with 'two' but will begin looking at index 5
9.Find (with x variable): string method that returns the index of the first occurrence of item x in the string, else returns
-1
my_str.find('!') will return the index of the '!' in the string
