breaking_up_string_variables.ipynb

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     "source": [
      "# Breaking Up String Variables"
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      "- **Author:** [Chris Albon](http://www.chrisalbon.com/), [@ChrisAlbon](https://twitter.com/chrisalbon)\n",
      "- **Date:** -\n",
      "- **Repo:** [Python 3 code snippets for data science](https://github.com/chrisalbon/code_py)\n",
      "- **Note:** Originally from: [Learning Python](https://www.amazon.com/gp/yourstore/home?ie=UTF8&ref_=gno_signin&)"
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     "source": [
      "### Basic name assignment"
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     "cell_type": "code",
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     "input": [
      "variableName = 'This is a string.'"
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     "language": "python",
     "metadata": {},
     "outputs": [],
     "prompt_number": 48
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     "cell_type": "markdown",
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     "source": [
      "### List assignment"
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     "cell_type": "code",
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     "input": [
      "One, Two, Three = [1, 2, 3]"
     ],
     "language": "python",
     "metadata": {},
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     "prompt_number": 49
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     "source": [
      "### Break up a string into variables"
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     "input": [
      "firstLetter, secondLetter, thirdLetter, fourthLetter = 'Bark'"
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     "language": "python",
     "metadata": {},
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     "prompt_number": 50
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     "cell_type": "code",
     "collapsed": false,
     "input": [
      "firstLetter"
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     "language": "python",
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       "metadata": {},
       "output_type": "pyout",
       "prompt_number": 51,
       "text": [
        "'B'"
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     "prompt_number": 51
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     "cell_type": "code",
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     "input": [
      "secondLetter"
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       "prompt_number": 52,
       "text": [
        "'a'"
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     "prompt_number": 52
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     "cell_type": "code",
     "collapsed": false,
     "input": [
      "thirdLetter"
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     "language": "python",
     "metadata": {},
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      {
       "metadata": {},
       "output_type": "pyout",
       "prompt_number": 53,
       "text": [
        "'r'"
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      }
     ],
     "prompt_number": 53
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    {
     "cell_type": "code",
     "collapsed": false,
     "input": [
      "fourthLetter"
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     "language": "python",
     "metadata": {},
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      {
       "metadata": {},
       "output_type": "pyout",
       "prompt_number": 54,
       "text": [
        "'k'"
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     "cell_type": "markdown",
     "metadata": {},
     "source": [
      "### Breaking up a number into seperate variables"
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     "collapsed": false,
     "input": [
      "firstNumber, secondNumber, thirdNumber, fourthNumber = '9485'"
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     "metadata": {},
     "outputs": [],
     "prompt_number": 55
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     "cell_type": "code",
     "collapsed": false,
     "input": [
      "firstLetter"
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     "language": "python",
     "metadata": {},
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       "metadata": {},
       "output_type": "pyout",
       "prompt_number": 56,
       "text": [
        "'B'"
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     "prompt_number": 56
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     "cell_type": "code",
     "collapsed": false,
     "input": [
      "secondLetter"
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     "language": "python",
     "metadata": {},
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      {
       "metadata": {},
       "output_type": "pyout",
       "prompt_number": 57,
       "text": [
        "'a'"
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     "prompt_number": 57
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     "cell_type": "code",
     "collapsed": false,
     "input": [
      "thirdLetter"
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     "language": "python",
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       "metadata": {},
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       "prompt_number": 58,
       "text": [
        "'r'"
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     "prompt_number": 58
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     "cell_type": "code",
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     "input": [
      "fourthLetter"
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       "output_type": "pyout",
       "prompt_number": 59,
       "text": [
        "'k'"
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     "source": [
      "### Assign the first letter of 'spam' into varible a, assign all the remaining letters to variable b"
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      "a, *b = 'spam'\n",
      "a"
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       "prompt_number": 27,
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        "'s'"
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      "b"
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       "text": [
        "['p', 'a', 'm']"
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     "prompt_number": 28
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     "cell_type": "code",
     "collapsed": false,
     "input": [],
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