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You will get the following output:
Output
A sequence of
characters are called a string.
Strings are used by programming
languages to manipulate text such
as words and sentences.
USING ESCAPE SEQUENCES WITH STRINGS
Escape sequences or characters are used to represent special characters that cannot be directly
inserted into a string.
An escape sequence is a sequence of characters that does not represent itself when used
inside a character or string. It is typically used to specify actions such as carriage returns and
tab movements. To include special characters like quotes within a string, you need to escape
them with a backslash. The backslash (\) is a special character and is also known as the escape
character in Python. It is used to represent white space characters, for example, '\t' for tab, '\n' for
new line, and '\r' is for carriage return.
Program 6: To print special symbols using escape sequences.
Program6.py
File Edit Format Run Options Window Help
print('I love programming in \n Python')
You will get the following output:
Output
I love programming in
Python
TRAVERSING A STRING
Traversing means visiting each element and processing it as required by the program. We can
access the characters of a string one at a time using indexing.
There are two ways of indexing a list:
Positive Indexing: Index from left starts with 0.
Negative Indexing: Index from right starts with -1.
The syntax for traversing a string is as follows:
<name of the string> [index]
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