The type string is a type used for text:
name = 'Johan Carlsson'
child = "Åsa is Johan Carlsson's daughter"
book = """Aunt Julia
and the Scriptwriter"""
A string is enclosed either by single or double quotes. If a string contains several lines, it has to be enclosed by three double quotes """ or three single quotes '''.
Strings can be indexed with simple indexes or slices (see Chapter 3: Container Types, for a comprehensive explanation on slices):
book[-1] # returns 'r'
book[-12:] # returns 'Scriptwriter'
Strings are immutable; that is, items cannot be altered. They share this property with tuples. The command book[1] = 'a' returns:
TypeError: 'str' object does not support item assignment