Return string[len(prefix):] if the string starts with prefix, and string[:] otherwise. Minimal Example As you read over the explanations below, feel free to watch our video guide about this particular string method: Syntax and Explanation str.removeprefix(prefix) The method creates a new string from the original string by removing the prefix passed as an argument. Formally, … Read more

Searches for a separator substring and returns a tuple with three strings: (1) everything before the separator, (2) the separator itself, and (3) everything after it. Minimal Example As you read over the explanations below, feel free to watch our video guide about this particular string method: Syntax and Explanation str.partition(sep) Searches for a separator … Read more

Returns a translation table. Minimal Example As you read over the explanations below, feel free to watch our video guide about this particular string method: Syntax and Explanation static str.maketrans(x[, y[, z]]) Returns a translation table—think of it as a dictionary—that you can pass into the str.translate() method to translate all characters in the string … Read more

Trims whitespaces on the left and returns a new string. Minimal Example As you read over the explanations below, feel free to watch our video guide about this particular string method: Syntax and Explanation str.lstrip([chars]) Trims whitespaces on the left and returns a new string. chars – optional. The argument defines the set of characters … Read more

Returns a lowercase string version. Minimal Example As you read over the explanations below, feel free to watch our video guide about this particular string method: Syntax and Explanation str.lower() Returns a lowercase string version. Here are a few examples: You can find the full algorithm for lowercasing a string in the section 3.13 of … Read more

Returns a left-justified string filling up the right-hand side with fill characters. Minimal Example As you read over the explanations below, feel free to watch our video guide about this particular string method: Syntax and Explanation str.ljust(width[, fillchar]) Returns a left-justified string filling up the right-hand side with fill characters. width – the number of … Read more

Concatenates the elements in an iterable. Minimal Example As you read over the explanations below, feel free to watch our video guide about this particular string method: Syntax and Explanation str.join(iterable) Concatenates the elements in an iterable. The result is a string whereas each elements in the iterable are “glued together” using the string on … Read more

Checks whether all characters are uppercase (True or False). Minimal Example As you read over the explanations below, feel free to watch our video guide about this particular string method: Syntax and Explanation str.isupper() Checks whether all characters are uppercase (True or False). Border case: The empty string is not be considered uppercase and ”.isupper() … Read more

Checks if the string is title-cased (True or False). Minimal Example As you read over the explanations below, feel free to watch our video guide about this particular string method: Syntax and Explanation str.istitle() Checks if the string is title-cased (True or False). A titlecased string is a string where each word starts with an … Read more

Checks whether all characters are whitespaces (True or False). Minimal Example As you read over the explanations below, feel free to watch our video guide about this particular string method: Syntax and Explanation str.isspace() Checks whether all characters are whitespaces (True or False). Border case: The empty string is not be considered a whitespace character! … Read more

Checks whether all characters are printable (True or False). Minimal Example As you read over the explanations below, feel free to watch our video guide about this particular string method: Syntax and Explanation str.isprintable() Checks whether all characters are numeric values (True or False). The vast majority of the characters, you’ll ever use in a … Read more

Checks whether all characters are numeric values (True or False). Minimal Example As you read over the explanations below, feel free to watch our video guide about this particular string method: Syntax and Explanation str.isnumeric() Checks whether all characters are numeric values (True or False). Border case: The empty string is not be considered numeric. … Read more