String Best Practices

Single vs double quotes strings

both quotes are acceptable:

"quote"
'quote'

try to avoid using backlash escape characters...

"quote's"

# vs
'quote\'s'

Whitespaces in String Slicing

there should be equal amount of whitespace on both sides

word[start:stop]
text[1:3]

Bad: word[start + offset:end + offset]
Better:word[start+offset : end+offset]
Correct: word[start:end:step]
Bad: word[start:end: step]
when a slice paramater is immitted the space is ommited.. word[:end:step]

String method vs string module

use the string methods instead of the string module

String concatenation

dont rely on pythons in place string concatenation: a += b or a = a + b
this is something that you would NOT want to do:

words = ["Hello", ", ", "World", "!"]

final_string = ""

for elem in words:
    final_string += elem

print(final_String)

The reccomended alternitive is to use the "".join() form

# Iterable = list, tuple, dictionary keys
# "" is the seperator
"".join(<iterable>)

# ex:
words = ["Hello", ", ", "World", "!"]
" ".join(words)

Checking prefixes and suffixes

you should use .startswith() and .endswith() instead of string slicing

"Hello Donovan".startswith("Hello")

Trailing whitespaces

"text ".rstrip() will trip trailing whitespace
" text".lstrip() will trim the leading whitespace
" text ".strip() will trim all leading or trailing whitespace