Python String

​Strings are among the most common data types in Python. We can create them simply by enclosing the characters in quotes. Python treats single quotes like double quotes and also like triple quotes.

Store text strings in variables

A string can be assigned as a value to a variable, as in the following example.

Example:

welcome = "مرحباً بايثون"
print(welcome)


string = "This is a string in Python"
print(string)

The output will be:

مرحباً بايثون
This is a string in Python

Note: The texts in Python depend on Unicode encoding, and this means that Python deals with any texts in any language, whether English, Arabic, French, etc..

How to create text strings

In Python, strings can be created by enclosing the character or sequence of characters in quotation marks. Python allows us to use single quotes, double quotes, or triple quotes to create the string.

The following are examples of strings in Python.​​​​​

# String between single quotes 
'This is a string in Python'


# String in double quotes
"This is a string in Python"

# A string between single triple quotes
'''This is a string in Python'''

# String between double triple quotes
"""This is a string in Python"""

 Note: The single quotation mark ( ' ) and the double quotation mark ( " ) are used to identify single-line text only. The single triple quotation mark ( ''' ) and the double triple quotation mark ( """ ) are used to identify large consisting text from several lines.

 Multiline text strings are enclosed in triple quotes, as in the following example

string = '''This is 
the first
Multi-line string.
'''
print(string )

 The output will be:

This is 
the first
Multi-line string.

 Another example:

string2 = """This is
the second
Multi-line
string."""
print(string2 )

 The output will also be:

This is 
the first
Multi-line string.

 Note the double triple quotes ( """ ) and single quotes ( ''' ) in the above examples

 If a text string already contains double quotes as part of the text string, it must be enclosed in single quotes. Likewise, if the text string contains undefined contains a single quote as part of a text string, it must be enclosed in double quotes.

 Example for clarification:

string1 ='You can "learn Python" with Ahmed Obaid'
print(string1)
string2 ="You can 'learn Python' with Ahmed Obaid"
print(string2)
    

 The output will be:

You can "learn Python" with Ahmed Obaid
You can 'learn Python' with Ahmed Obaid

 Follow the subsequent articles to learn how to deal with strings, ways to combine strings, and functions that deal with strings

 External sources for more information:

 Strings - Python Documentation

 If you have any questions or concerns, leave them in the comments below