The video tutorial introduces built-in string methods in Python, focusing on how to manipulate strings using methods like 'upper' and 'capitalize'. It demonstrates the use of the 'capitalize' method in a phone book application to handle case sensitivity issues. The tutorial also covers the 'in' operator for checking membership within strings. The lesson concludes with a brief overview of string operations and a preview of the next lesson on numbers.

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