Python是一门功能强大且广泛应用的编程语言,而对于许多开发者来说,字符串处理是Python编程中的一个核心部分。
一、引号标示字符串
Python可以操作文本,也就是字符串(str类型)。字符串可以包含各种字符,例如标点符号、单词、名称和句子等。在Python中,字符串可以使用成对的单引号或双引号来标示,两者的结果完全相同。
>>>'spam eggs' # single quotes 'spam eggs' >>>"Paris rabbit got your back :)! Yay!" # double quotes 'Paris rabbit got your back :)! Yay!' >>>'1975' # digits and numerals enclosed in quotes are also strings '1975'
为了标示引号本身,我们需要用反斜杠进行转义,即在前面加一个 \,或使用另一种引号类型:
>>>'doesn\'t' # use \' to escape the single quote... "doesn't" >>>"doesn't" # ...or use double quotes instead "doesn't" >>>'"Yes," they said.' '"Yes," they said.' >>>"\"Yes,\" they said." '"Yes," they said.' >>>'"Isn\'t," they said.' '"Isn\'t," they said.'
在Python shell中,字符串的定义和输出可能会有所不同。使用 print() 函数时,引号会被省略,并且特殊字符会被解释为换行符等特殊用途,产生更易读的输出:
>>>s = 'First line.\nSecond line.' # \n means newline >>>s # without print(), special characters are included in the string 'First line.\nSecond line.' >>>print(s) # with print(), special characters are interpreted, so \n produces new line First line. Second line.
如果不想让前置 \的字符转义成特殊字符,可以使用原始字符串,在引号前加上 r :
>>>print('C:\some\name') # here \n means newline! C:\some ame >>>print(r'C:\some\name') # note the r before the quote C:\some\name
原始字符串有一个微妙的限制:一个原始字符串不能以奇数个 \ 字符结束
字符串字面值可以包含多行内容。一种实现方式是使用三重引号: “””…””” 或 ”’…”’ 。在字符串中会自动包含行结束符,但也可以在换行处使用`\`来避免这种情况。例如:
print("""\ Usage: thingy [OPTIONS] -h Display this usage message -H hostname Hostname to connect to """)
输出如下(注意开始的换行符没有被包括在内):
Usage: thingy [OPTIONS] -h Display this usage message -H hostname Hostname to connect to
二、合并和重复
字符串可以用加号 + 合并(连接在一起),也可以用乘号 * 重复。例如:
>>># 3 times 'un', followed by 'ium' >>>3 * 'un' + 'ium' 'unununium'
相邻的两个或多个字符串字面值会自动合并:
>>>'Py' 'thon' 'Python'
这个特性在拼接过长的字符串时非常有用:
>>>text = ('Put several strings within parentheses ' ... 'to have them joined together.') >>>text 'Put several strings within parentheses to have them joined together.'
这个功能只能用于两个字面值,不能用于变量或表达式:
>>>prefix = 'Py' >>>prefix 'thon' # can't concatenate a variable and a string literal File "<stdin>", line 1 prefix 'thon' ^^^^^^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax >>>('un' * 3) 'ium' File "<stdin>", line 1 ('un' * 3) 'ium' ^^^^^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax
要合并多个变量,或者将变量与字符串字面值合并,需要使用加号 +。
>>>prefix + 'thon' 'Python'
三、索引和切片操作
字符串支持索引(下标访问),第一个字符的索引是0。单个字符没有专门的类型,就是长度为一的字符串,例如:
>>>word = 'Python' >>>word[0] # character in position 0 'P' >>>word[5] # character in position 5 'n'
索引还支持负数,用负数索引时表示从右边开始计数:
>>>word[-1] # last character 'n' >>>word[-2] # second-last character 'o' >>>word[-6] 'P'
注意:-0 和 0 是一样的,因此负数索引从 -1 开始。
除了索引之外,字符串还支持切片操作。索引用于获取单个字符,而切片允许获取子字符串。
>>>word[0:2] # characters from position 0 (included) to 2 (excluded) 'Py' >>>word[2:5] # characters from position 2 (included) to 5 (excluded) 'tho'
切片索引有默认值。省略开始索引时,默认为0;省略结束索引时,默认为字符串的结尾。例如:
>>>word[:2] # character from the beginning to position 2 (excluded) 'Py' >>>word[4:] # characters from position 4 (included) to the end 'on' >>>word[-2:] # characters from the second-last (included) to the end 'on'
注意:切片的输出结果包括起始位置,但不包括结束位置。因此,s[:i] + s[i:]总是等于原始字符串 s:
>>>word[:2] + word[2:] 'Python' >>>word[:4] + word[4:] 'Python'
也可以这样理解切片,索引指向的是字符之间的位置。第一个字符的左侧标记为0,最后一个字符的右侧标记为n,n 是字符串长度。例如:
+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | P | y | t | h | o | n | +---+---+---+---+---+---+ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1
第一行数字表示字符串中索引 0…6 的位置,第二行数字表示对应的负数索引位置。切片 [i:j] 由 i 和 j 之间所有对应的字符组成。对于使用非负索引的切片,如果两个索引都未越界,则切片的长度是结束索引减去开始索引。例如,word[1:3] 的长度是2。
如果索引越界则会引发错误:
>>>word[42] # the word only has 6 characters Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> IndexError: string index out of range
但是,切片操作会自动处理越界索引。例如:
>>>word[4:42] 'on' word[42:] ''
Python中的字符串是不可改变的(immutable)。因此,给字符串的某个索引位置赋值会报错:
>>>word[0] = 'J' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: 'str' object does not support item assignment >>>word[2:] = 'py' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: 'str' object does not support item assignment
要生成一个不同的字符串,需要创建一个新的字符串:
>>>'J' + word[1:] 'Jython' >>>word[:2] + 'py' 'Pypy'
内置函数 len() 可以返回字符串的长度:
>>> s = 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' >>> len(s) 34