String Manipulation in Python

String manipulation is one of those activities in programming that we, as programmers, do all the time.

In many programming languages, you have to do a lot of the heavy lifting by yourself.

In Python, on the other hand, you have several built-in functions in the standard library to help you manipulate strings in the most different ways you can think of.

In the following articles, I showcase these many features of the language regarding strings specifically along with some nice tricks.

You can also download a PDF version with all of these tips and a few more tricks on Python String Manipulation Handbook.

• How to Split a String in Python
• How to remove all white spaces in a string in Python
• Multiline Strings in Python
• lstrip(): removing spaces and chars from the beginning of a string in Python
• rstrip(): removing spaces and chars from the end of a string in Python
• strip(): removing spaces and chars from the beginning and end of a string in Python
• String Lowercase in Python
• String Uppercase in Python
• String Title Case in Python
• String Swap Case in Python
• Checking if a string is empty in Python
• rjust(): right-justified string in Python
• ljust(): left-justified string in Python
• isalnum(): checking alphanumeric only in a string in Python
• isprintable(): checking printable characters in a string in Python
• isspace(): checking white space only in a string in Python
• startswith(): checking if a string begins with a certain value in Python
• capitalize(): first character only to upper case in a string in Python
• isupper(): checking upper case only in a string in Python
• endswith(): check if a string ends with a certain value in Python
• join(): join items of an iterable into one string in Python
• splitlines(): splitting a string at line breaks in Python
• islower(): checking lower case only in a string in Python
• isnumeric(): checking numerics only in a string in Python
• isdigit(): checking digits only in a string in Python
• isdecimal(): checking decimals only in a string in Python
• isalpha(): checking letters only in a string in Python
• istitle(): checking if every word begins with an upper case char in a string in Python
• expandtabs(): set the number of spaces for a tab in a string in Python
• center(): centered string in Python
• zfill(): add zeros to a string in Python
• find(): check if a string has a certain substring in Python
• Removing a Prefix or a Suffix in a String in Python
• Python: lstrip() vs removeprefix() and rstrip() vs removesuffix()
• How to reverse a string in Python
• Understanding Slicing in Python