Python string functions
Function Name Description
capitalize() Returns the String with first character capitalized and rest of the characters in lower case.
lower() Converts all the characters of the String to lowercase.
upper() Converts all the characters of the String to uppercase.
count( str[,beg,end]]) Returns the number of times substring ‘str’ occurs in range [beg, end] if beg and end index are
given. If it is not given then substring is searched in the whole String. Search is case-sensitive.
islower() Returns ‘True’ if all the characters in the String are in lowercase. If any one character is in
uppercase it will return ‘False’.
isupper() Returns ‘True’ if all the characters in the String are in uppercase. If any one character is in
lowercase it will return ‘False’.
isdecimal() Returns ‘True’ if all the characters in String are decimal. If anyone character in the String is of
other data-type, it will return ‘False’.
isdigit() Returns ‘True’ for any character for which isdecimal() would return ‘True and some characters
in ‘No’ category. If there are any characters other than these, it will return ‘False’.
isalpha() Returns ‘True’ if String contains at least one character (non-empty String) and all the
characters are alphabetic, ‘False’ otherwise.
isalnum() Returns ‘True’ if String contains at least one character (non-empty String) and all the
characters are either alphabetic or decimal digits, ‘False’ otherwise.
find(str [,i [,j]]) Searches for ‘str’ in complete String (if i and j not defined) or in a sub-string of String (if i and
j are defined).This function returns the index if ‘str’ is found else returns ‘-1’, where, i=search
starts from this index. j=search ends at this index.
index(str[,i [,j]]) This is same as ‘find’ method. The only difference is that it raises ‘ValueError’ exception if
‘str’ is not found.
rfind(str[,i [,j]]) This is same as find() just that this function returns the last index where ‘str’ is found. If ‘str’ is
not found it returns ‘-1’.
count(str[,i [,j]]) Returns the number of occurrences of substring ‘str’ in the String. Searches for ‘str’ in
complete String (if i and j not defined) or in a sub-string of String (if i and j are defined),
where, i=search starts from this index, j=search ends at this index.
replace(old,new[,count]) Replaces all the occurrences of substring ‘old’ with ‘new’ in the String.
If ‘count’ is defined then only ‘count’ number of occurrences of ‘old’ will be replaced with
‘new’, where, old =substring to be replaced, new =substring that will replace the old, count
=number of occurrences of old that will be replaced with new.
split([sep[,maxsplit]]) Returns a list of substring obtained after splitting the String with ‘sep’ as delimiter, where, sep=
delimiter, default is space, maxsplit= number of splits to be done.
lstrip([chars]) Returns a String after removing the characters from the beginning of the String.
where,
Chars=this is the character to be trimmed from the String. Default is whitespace character.
rstrip() Returns a String after removing the characters from the End of the String.
where, Chars=this is the character to be trimmed from the String. Default is whitespace
character.
len(string) Returns the length of given String
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