Creating Strings

Creating Strings

As we learnt already, a string in Python can be created using single or double or even triple quotes. String in single quotes cannot hold any other single quoted character in it, because the compiler will not recognize where to start and end the string. To overcome this problem, you have to use double quotes. Strings which contains double quotes should be define within triple quotes. Defining strings within triple quotes also allows creation of multiline strings.

Example

#A string defined within single quotes

>>>print (‘Greater Chennai Corporation’) Greater Chennai Corporation

#single quoted string defined within single quotes

>>>print ('Greater Chennai Corporation's student') SyntaxError: invalid syntax

#A string defined within double quotes

>>>print (“Computer Science”)

Computer Science

#double quoted string defined within double quotes

>>>print (''' "Computer Science" ''')

"Computer Science"

#single and double quoted multiline string defined within triple quotes

>>> print (''' "Strings are immutable in 'Python',

which means you can't make any changes once you declared" ''')

"Strings are immutable in 'Python',

which means you can't make any changes once you declared"