Python Basics Exercises: Strings and String Methods (Summary)

Hello/Hallo, I really liked this course .. I have questions as some of the solutions did not work for me (but i did not use repl, i used something named replit)

Exercice 4 of Task 1, with \ does not work… This below works :

print("Ligne 1",end=" ")
print("Ligne 2")

#alternative avec les f string ??
Ligne1 = "Ligne 1"
Ligne2 = "Ligne 2"
print(f"{Ligne1} {Ligne2}")

Also when getting character from s string i thought it was mandatory to write user_input[0:1] but when I saw that you wrote [0]… Anyway, i realised that you could chain methods and its a must ! Vielen Dank noch einmal!

@emmanuel I just tried running the following on repl.it and it worked as expected for me:

print("Hello \
there")

This is a core Python syntax feature, so it should work anywhere you’re running Python, also in an online IDE such as repl.it

If you want, you can share the repl and we can try to debug why it isn’t working.

Either way, you found some other ways of doing the same thing that are overall better readable than using the backslash character, so nice work on that :)

For anyone wanting to dive deeper, you can read more in the following tutorials:

• Your Guide to the Python print() function
• Python’s F-String for String Interpolation and Formatting

And finally, like you mentioned, when you use indexing to get a single element out of an iterable (e.g. a character from a string), then you only need to pass its index into the square brackets.

You can read more in indexing and slicing strings.

Hello, Thank you again for your feedback! I must have done something wrong as i just copied & pasted what you wrote and it works… Btw, I dont know if you can acces my replit for this … I would be happy to see if it is possible and if you can write something in it … replit.com/@emmanuelgoitia/RealPython-StringExercices?v=1

@emmanuel I can view it and fork it, then run it on my own account. I can’t directly edit yours. This is how repl.it is set up to work.

Hello Martin, I must admit I am a total newbie in most things related to Python and its use. I purchased this mainly to do the 100 days code challenge and run python on a machine without installing it .... Is there a tutorial on this on Real python by the way or on the debugger ?

@emmanuel why don’t you want to install Python on your machine? It’s not a big trouble and if you’re serious about learning Python, I’d recommend that you install it.

You can do a lot of experimentation and coding also in online environments such as repl.it, and you’re probably fine for a while. But you’ll probably bump into some situations that are specific to that tool, or into challenges that aren’t there (or are different) when you program locally.

Anyways, we don’t have a specific tutorial about programming in Python without installing it locally, but most of everything you can learn here will also apply : )

If you’re looking into tutorials about debugging, we do have a couple on the site. You can also use the search interface to find them, e.g. realpython.com/search?kind=article&q=debugging. Hope that helps!