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Learn Python in 7 Days

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Learn Python in 7 Days

Overview of this book

Python is a great language to get started in the world of programming and application development. This book will help you to take your skills to the next level having a good knowledge of the fundamentals of Python. We begin with the absolute foundation, covering the basic syntax, type variables and operators. We'll then move on to concepts like statements, arrays, operators, string processing and I/O handling. You’ll be able to learn how to operate tuples and understand the functions and methods of lists. We’ll help you develop a deep understanding of list and tuples and learn python dictionary. As you progress through the book, you’ll learn about function parameters and how to use control statements with the loop. You’ll further learn how to create modules and packages, storing of data as well as handling errors. We later dive into advanced level concepts such as Python collections and how to use class, methods, objects in python. By the end of this book, you will be able to take your skills to the next level having a good knowledge of the fundamentals of Python.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
2
Type Variables and Operators

Python string methods


There are several string methods, which will be discussed one by one. To represent strings, we use the str1 variable.

Sometimes, we want to count the characters or substrings in the given string. The string method count helps to achieve this:

count()

The syntax for the method is as follows:

str1.count(substr [, start [, end]])

The count method returns the number of occurrences of the substring substr in string str1. By using the parameter start and end you can obtain a slice of str1.

Consider the following example:

>>> str1 = 'The Avengers'
>>> str1.count("e")
3
>>> str1.count("e",5,12)
2
>>> 

In many situations, we need to find the index of the substring in the given string. The find() method can do the task.

The syntax for the find() method is given as follows:

str.find(str, beg=0 end=len(string))

The find() method is used to find out whether a string occurs in a given string or its substrings.

>>> str1 = "peace begins with a smile...