Programming Bootcamp for Scientists #10

00:00 Solution to compare numbers

03:57 Solution to compare strings

08:00 Nóra explains her solutions using functions

13:10 Refactoring

19:27 Start the chapter Strings

19:38 Single quoted and double quoted strings

21:19 Triple quoted strings (multiline strings)

21:47 What would you do if you wanted to print a quote character? Escaping quotes. \n, \t

26:43 Is it OK to TABs instead of spaces for indenting Python code? Indentation examples. Notepad++ show whitespaces.

35:13 String length (len)

35:36 String repetition and concatenation

37:18 A character in a string.

38:00 Is a string a list? No, it's a Sequence.

39:00 String slice (instead of substr)

41:58 Change a string - Strings are immutable

44:20 String copy

47:05 String functions and methods (len, upper, lower)

49:30 All the built-in functions of Python

50:29 index and rindex in string

58:24 When the string is not found we get an exception. How can we prevent it?

59:16 find in string

1:00:39 in string

1:03:51 Encodings: ASCII, Windows-1255, Unicode

1:09:32 raw strings

1:14:42 ord

1:16:16 chr - number to character

1:16:45 Exercises

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