Wrap-Up and Review

Splitting, Concatenating, and Joining Python Strings Jackie Wilson 01:38

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00:00 In this series of videos, we have covered splitting, concatenating, and joining strings. Let’s do a quick recap of strings and these three operations. Strings are immutable sequences, meaning no method or operation can change the string once it is established in your code. When we split strings, we take a string and divide it into portions using a separator.

00:23 The .split() method then returns those string portions as elements in a new list. We specify the separator by passing it as a string argument.

00:33 If we don’t specify a separator, .split() will use whitespace by default. Specifying a maxsplit argument will limit the number of splits. While splitting involves breaking a string apart, concatenating and joining are about putting strings together.

00:50 We can create a new string by adding or using the plus sign (+) to combine two or more strings. This is known as concatenation. Joining involves invoking .join() upon a separator string and passing a string sequence argument to the method.

01:10 The effect will be a new string with the sequence elements separated by the invoking separator string.

01:17 It is not uncommon to see the invoking string be empty.

01:24 We have barely touched upon the many great features of Python strings. If you’re interested in learning more, check out our tutorials on f-strings, formatting, and strings and character data.

01:35 Thank you for watching!