Strings
- Containers of characters
- Used for communicating to the user
- used for processing data (files, network)
Characters
- Basic unit of a string
- every letter, digit, symbol and emoji
- have a claue that comes from the Unicode standard
String literals
- String are immutable
String Quoates
- single, double
- quotes are also called delimiters
- Now shown when using the print() function
String literals Examples
- '’hello’
- ‘42’
- “emoji”
Special characters
- do not have a single printable representation
- require escape sequence to be invoked
Escape Sequence
- Started by the backslash character \
- Interpreted when using the print function
Special characters List
- \ backslash
- ' single quote
- " double quote
Special characters Example
print('Use backslash: \\ to escape a single quote: \'')
Whitespaces
- charcters that are not visible but take up space
- seperators of data, words or lines
Whitespace characters
- ’’ space
- \t tab
- \n newline
- \b backspace
- \r line feed
Whitespace example
print('First:\tGold\nSecond:\tSilver\nThird:\tBronze')
OUTPUT
First: Gold
Second: Silver
Third: Bronze
Data Type properties
| Data Type | Container | Mutuable | |
| numeric | no | no | |
| string | yes | no |