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diff --git a/getting_started_with_strings/script.rst b/getting_started_with_strings/script.rst index d383dcb..6d31bee 100644 --- a/getting_started_with_strings/script.rst +++ b/getting_started_with_strings/script.rst @@ -96,9 +96,9 @@ one of the control characters itself is part of the string. For example By having multiple control characters, we avoid the need for escaping characters -- in this case the apostrophe. -Let us now move on to the triple quoted strings. Let us define multi-line strings without -using any escaping. Everything within the triple quotes is a single -string no matter how many lines it extends +Let us now move on to the triple quoted strings. Let us define multi-line +strings without using any escaping. Everything within the triple quotes is a +single string no matter how many lines it extends .. L6 :: @@ -119,9 +119,10 @@ We can assign this string to any variable .. R8 Now 'a' is a string variable. String is a collection of characters. In -addition string is an immutable collection which means that the string cannot be modified -after it is created.So all the operations that are applicable to any other immutable -collection in Python, works on strings as well. Hence we can add two strings +addition string is an immutable collection which means that the string cannot +be modified after it is created.So all the operations that are applicable to any +other immutable collection in Python, works on strings as well. +Hence we can add two strings .. L8 :: @@ -190,8 +191,8 @@ using the subscripts .. R14 a[0] gives us the first character in the string. The indexing starts from 0 -for the first character and goes up to (n-1) for the last character,where 'n' is the total -number of characters in a string. +for the first character and goes up to (n-1) for the last character,where 'n' is +the total number of characters in a string. We can access the strings from the end using negative indices .. L15 |