1. Strings in Python
Creating a string

2. Creating a string There are many different ways to create a string
The simplest way is to hard code it into your program mystring = “Hello”
Remember individual characters of mystring cannot be changed afterward (strings are immutable)
Many of the string methods return new strings newstring = mystring.upper()
The typecast str will create a string from another data type mynumstring = str(num)

3. Getting a string from input
When you read from the keyboard, the input function will always return a string myname = input(“What’s your name? “)
When you learn about external files, one thing you do is read from them (see Chapter 10)
The input from a file always comes in as a string or list of strings

4. Other ways to create a string
You can build up a string one character at a time
The pattern is very similar to an accumulator
You initialize a variable to an empty string new_one = “”
Then in a loop you concatenate the new character onto the variable new_one = new_one + ch