% Created 2010-10-28 Thu 11:35 \documentclass[presentation]{beamer} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{fixltx2e} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{longtable} \usepackage{float} \usepackage{wrapfig} \usepackage{soul} \usepackage{t1enc} \usepackage{textcomp} \usepackage{marvosym} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{latexsym} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{hyperref} \tolerance=1000 \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage{ae,aecompl} \usepackage{mathpazo,courier,euler} \usepackage[scaled=.95]{helvet} \usepackage{listings} \lstset{language=Python, basicstyle=\ttfamily\bfseries, commentstyle=\color{red}\itshape, stringstyle=\color{darkgreen}, showstringspaces=false, keywordstyle=\color{blue}\bfseries} \providecommand{\alert}[1]{\textbf{#1}} \title{Manipulating strings} \author{FOSSEE} \date{} \usetheme{Warsaw}\usecolortheme{default}\useoutertheme{infolines}\setbeamercovered{transparent} \begin{document} \maketitle \begin{frame} \frametitle{Outline} \label{sec-1} \begin{itemize} \item Slicing strings to get sub-strings \item Reversing strings \item Replacing characters in strings. \item Converting strings to upper or lower case \item Joining a list of strings \end{itemize} \end{frame} \begin{frame} \frametitle{Question 1} \label{sec-2} Obtain the sub-string excluding the first and last characters from the string \texttt{s}. \end{frame} \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Solution 1} \label{sec-3} \begin{verbatim} In []: s[1:-1] \end{verbatim} \end{frame} \begin{frame} \frametitle{Question 2} \label{sec-4} Given a list week, week = \texttt{week = ["sun", "mon", "tue", "wed", "thu", "fri", "sat"]}. Check if \texttt{s} is a valid name of a day of the week. Change the solution to this problem, to include forms like, SAT, SATURDAY, Saturday and Sat. \end{frame} \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Solution 2} \label{sec-5} \begin{verbatim} In []: s in week In []: s.lower()[:3] in week \end{verbatim} \end{frame} \begin{frame} \frametitle{Question 3} \label{sec-6} Given \texttt{email} -- \texttt{info@fossee[dot]in} Replace the \texttt{[dot]} with \texttt{.} in \texttt{email} \end{frame} \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Solution 3} \label{sec-7} \begin{verbatim} email.replace('[dot], '.') print email \end{verbatim} \end{frame} \begin{frame} \frametitle{Question 4} \label{sec-8} From the \texttt{email\_str} that we generated, change the separator to be a semicolon instead of a comma. \end{frame} \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Solution 4} \label{sec-9} \begin{verbatim} email_str = email_str.replace(",", ";") \end{verbatim} \end{frame} \begin{frame} \frametitle{Summary} \label{sec-10} You should now be able to -- \begin{itemize} \item Slice strings and get sub-strings out of them \item Reverse strings \item Replace characters in strings. \item Convert strings to upper or lower case \item Join a list of strings \end{itemize} \end{frame} \begin{frame} \frametitle{Thank you!} \label{sec-11} \begin{block}{} \begin{center} This spoken tutorial has been produced by the \textcolor{blue}{FOSSEE} team, which is funded by the \end{center} \begin{center} \textcolor{blue}{National Mission on Education through \\ Information \& Communication Technology \\ MHRD, Govt. of India}. \end{center} \end{block} \end{frame} \end{document}