Strings

• Containers of characters
• Used for communicating to the user
• used for processing data (files, network)

Characters

• Basic unit of a string
• every letter, digit, symbol and emoji
• have a claue that comes from the Unicode standard

String literals

• String are immutable

String Quoates

• single, double
• quotes are also called delimiters
• Now shown when using the print() function

String literals Examples

• '’hello’
• ‘42’
• “emoji”

Special characters

• do not have a single printable representation
• require escape sequence to be invoked

Escape Sequence

• Started by the backslash character \
• Interpreted when using the print function

Special characters List

• \ backslash
• ' single quote
• " double quote

Special characters Example

print('Use backslash: \\ to escape a single quote: \'')

Whitespaces

• charcters that are not visible but take up space
• seperators of data, words or lines

Whitespace characters

• ’’ space
• \t tab
• \n newline
• \b backspace
• \r line feed

Whitespace example

print('First:\tGold\nSecond:\tSilver\nThird:\tBronze')
OUTPUT
First: Gold
Second: Silver
Third: Bronze

Data Type properties

	Data Type	Container	Mutuable
numeric	no	no
string	yes	no