Python Basics: String

What is a string in Python?

• A number
• A list of words
• A sequence of characters
• A data table

Which of these is a string?

• "42"
• 42
• True
• [4, 2]

True or False: You can use indexing on a string.

• True
• False

What is the index of the first character in a string?

• 1
• 0
• -1
• It depends

What does word = "hello"; print(word[1]) output?

• h
• e
• l
• o

What does text = "banana"; print(text[2:5]) output?

• nan
• ban
• ana
• error

What does print("hello"[0:3]) output?

• hel
• llo
• ello
• he

True or False: "cat"[3] will give you 't'.

• True
• False

What is the last character of the string "python"?

• p
• n
• h
• o

What does name = "Sarah"; print(name[-1]) output?

• S
• h
• a
• Error