pytho_13.ppt

Chapter 13 – String Manipulation and Regular Expressions 13.1 Introduction Presentation of Python’s string and character processing capabilities Demonstrates powerful text-processing capabilities of regular expressions with module re 13.2 Fundamentals of Characters and Strings Characters: fundamental building blocks of Python programs Function ord returns a character’s integer ordinal value Python supports strings as a built-in type 13.2 Fundamentals of Characters and Strings 13.2 Fundamentals of Characters and Strings 13.2 Fundamentals of Characters and Strings 13.2 Fundamentals of Characters and Strings 13.2 Fundamentals of Characters and Strings 13.2 Fundamentals of Characters and Strings 13.3 String Presentation Formatting enables users to read and understand string data (e.g., program instructions) fig13_03.py 1 # Fig. 13.3: fig13_03.py 2 # Simple output formatting example. 3 4 string1 = Now I am here. 5 6 print string1.center( 50 ) 7 print string1.rjust( 50 ) 8 print string1.ljust( 50 ) fig13_04.py 1 # Fig. 13.4: fig13_04.py 2 # Stripping whitespace from a string. 3 4 string1 = \t \n This is a test string. \t\t \n 5 6 print Original string: %s\n % string1 7 print Using strip: %s\n % string1.strip() 8 print Using left strip: %s\n % string1.lstrip() 9 print Using right strip: \%s\\n % string1.rstrip() 13.4 Searching Strings Method find, index, rfind and rindex search for substrings in a calling string Methods startswith and endswith return 1 if a calling string begins with or ends with a given string, respectively Method count returns number of occurrences of a substring in a calling string Method replace substitutes its second argument for its first argument in a calling string fig13_05.py 1 # Fig. 13.5: fig13_05.py 2 # Searching strings for a substring. 3 4 # counting the occurrences of a substring 5 string1 = Test1, test2, test3, test4, Test5, test6 6 7 print test occurs %d tim