common string oprations
import string
1. string constants(常量)

1) string.ascii_letters

The concatenation of the ascii_lowercase and ascii_uppercase constants described below. This value is not locale-dependent.

print string.ascii_letters

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

2) string.

3) string.ascii_uppercase

The uppercase letters ‘ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ‘. This value is not locale-dependent and will not change.

4) string.digits 十進制

The string ‘0123456789‘.

5) string.hexdigits 十六進制
The string ‘0123456789abcdefABCDEF‘.
6) string.letters
The concatenation of the strings lowercase and uppercase described below. The specific value is locale-dependent, and will be updated when locale.setlocale() is called.

print string.letters

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

7) string.lowercase
A string containing all the characters that are considered lowercase letters. On most systems this is the string ‘abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz‘. Do not change its definition — the effect on the routines upper() and swapcase() is undefined. The specific value is locale-dependent, and will be updated when locale.setlocale() is called.

8) string.octdigits 八進制
The string ‘01234567‘.

9) string.punctuation 標點符號
String of ASCII characters which are considered punctuation characters in the C locale.

10) string.printable 所有可打印的字符集，包含數字，字母，標點空白符
String of characters which are considered printable. This is a combination of digits, letters, punctuation, and whitespace.
print string.printable
0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ!"#$%&‘()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~

11) string.uppercase
A string containing all the characters that are considered uppercase letters. On most systems this is the string ‘ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ‘. Do not change its definition — the effect on the routines lower() and swapcase() is undefined. The specific value is locale-dependent, and will be updated when locale.setlocale() is called.

12) string.whitespace 所有的空白符包含
\t 制表符
\n 換行符 (linefeed)

\x0b

\x0C
\r 不要改變這個定義──因為所影響它的方法strip()和split()為被定義

A string containing all characters that are considered whitespace. On most systems this includes the characters space, tab, linefeed, return, formfeed, and vertical tab. Do not change its definition — the effect on the routines strip() and split() is undefined.
print string.whitespace

2. string Method(方法)
Below are listed the string methods which both 8-bit strings and Unicode objects support. Note that none of these methods take keyword arguments.

In addition, Python’s strings support the sequence type methods described in the Sequence Types — str, unicode, list, tuple, buffer, xrange section. To output formatted strings use template strings or the % operator described in the String Formatting Operations section. Also, see the re module for string functions based on regular expression_rs.

str.capitalize() 將字符串的第一個字母變成大寫,其他字母變小寫
Return a copy of the string with only its first character capitalized.
For 8-bit strings, this method is locale-dependent.
str.center(width[, fillchar])
Return centered in a string of length width. Padding is done using the specified fillchar (default is a space).
Changed in version 2.4: Support for the fillchar argument.
str.count(sub[, start[, end]]) 返回sub子串的數量
Return the number of non-overlapping occurrences of substring sub in the range [start, end]. Optional arguments start and end are interpreted as in slice notation.
str.decode([encoding[, errors]]) 解碼
Decodes the string using the codec registered for encoding. encoding defaults to the default string encoding. errors may be given to set a different error handling scheme. The default is ‘strict‘, meaning that encoding errors raise UnicodeError. Other possible values are ‘ignore‘, ‘replace‘ and any other name registered via codecs.register_error(), see section Codec Base Classes.
str.encode([encoding[, errors]]) 編碼
Return an encoded version of the string. Default encoding is the current default string encoding. errors may be given to set a different error handling scheme. The default for errors is ‘strict‘, meaning that encoding errors raise a UnicodeError. Other possible values are ‘ignore‘, ‘replace‘, ‘xmlcharrefreplace‘, ‘backslashreplace‘ and any other name registered via codecs.register_error(), see section Codec Base Classes. For a list of possible encodings, see section Standard Encodings.
str.endswith(suffix[, start[, end]]) 檢查字符串是否suffix來結尾的,是返回true,否返回false.
Return True if the string ends with the specified suffix, otherwise return False. suffix can also be a tuple of suffixes to look for. With optional start, test beginning at that position. With optional end, stop comparing at that position.
str.expandtabs([tabsize])
Return a copy of the string where all tab characters are replaced by one or more spaces, depending on the current column and the given tab size. The column number is reset to zero after each newline occurring in the string. If tabsize is not given, a tab size of 8 characters is assumed. This doesn’t understand other non-printing characters or escape sequences.
str.find(sub[, start[, end]])在字符串中查找sub,找到後返回位置,沒找到返回-1.
Return the lowest index in the string where substring sub is found, such that sub is contained in the range [start, end]. Optional arguments start and end are interpreted as in slice notation. Return -1 if sub is not found.
str.format(format_string, *args, **kwargs)
Perform a string formatting operation. The format_string argument can contain literal text or replacement fields delimited by braces {}. Each replacement field contains either the numeric index of a positional argument, or the name of a keyword argument. Returns a copy of format_string where each replacement field is replaced with the string value of the corresponding argument.
>>> "The sum of 1 + 2 is {0}".format(1+2)
‘The sum of 1 + 2 is 3‘
See Format String Syntax for a description of the various formatting options that can be specified in format strings.
This method of string formatting is the new standard in Python 3.0, and should be preferred to the % formatting described in String Formatting Operations in new code.
str.index(sub[, start[, end]])功能和find類似,只是當沒有發現的時候返回報錯
Like find(), but raise ValueError when the substring is not found.
str.isalnum()判斷字符產是英文或數字組成的
Return true if all characters in the string are alphanumeric and there is at least one character, false otherwise.
For 8-bit strings, this method is locale-dependent.
str.isalpha()
Return true if all characters in the string are alphabetic and there is at least one character, false otherwise.
For 8-bit strings, this method is locale-dependent.
str.isdigit()
Return true if all characters in the string are digits and there is at least one character, false otherwise.
For 8-bit strings, this method is locale-dependent.
str.islower()
Return true if all cased characters in the string are lowercase and there is at least one cased character, false otherwise.
For 8-bit strings, this method is locale-dependent.
str.isspace()
Return true if there are only whitespace characters in the string and there is at least one character, false otherwise.
For 8-bit strings, this method is locale-dependent.
str.istitle()
Return true if the string is a titlecased string and there is at least one character, for example uppercase characters may only follow uncased characters and lowercase characters only cased ones. Return false otherwise.
For 8-bit strings, this method is locale-dependent.
str.isupper()
Return true if all cased characters in the string are uppercase and there is at least one cased character, false otherwise.
For 8-bit strings, this method is locale-dependent.
str.join(seq)
Return a string which is the concatenation of the strings in the sequence seq. The separator between elements is the string providing this method.
str.ljust(width[, fillchar])
Return the string left justified in a string of length width. Padding is done using the specified fillchar (default is a space). The original string is returned if width is less than len(s).
Changed in version 2.4: Support for the fillchar argument.
str.lower()
Return a copy of the string converted to lowercase. 將字符串轉換成小寫
For 8-bit strings, this method is locale-dependent.
str.lstrip([chars])
Return a copy of the string with leading characters removed. The chars argument is a string specifying the set of characters to be removed. If omitted or None, the chars argument defaults to removing whitespace. The chars argument is not a prefix; rather, all combinations of its values are stripped:
>>> ‘ spacious ‘.lstrip()
‘spacious ‘
>>> ‘www.example.com‘.lstrip(‘cmowz.‘)
‘example.com‘
Changed in version 2.2.2: Support for the chars argument.
str.partition(sep)
Split the string at the first occurrence of sep, and return a 3-tuple containing the part before the separator, the separator itself, and the part after the separator. If the separator is not found, return a 3-tuple containing the string itself, followed by two empty strings.

New in version 2.5.

str.replace(old, new[, count])
Return a copy of the string with all occurrences of substring old replaced by new. If the optional argument count is given, only the first count occurrences are replaced.

str.rfind(sub[, start[, end]])
Return the highest index in the string where substring sub is found, such that sub is contained within s[start,end]. Optional arguments start and end are interpreted as in slice notation. Return -1 on failure.

str.rindex(sub[, start[, end]])
Like rfind() but raises ValueError when the substring sub is not found.

str.rjust(width[, fillchar])

Return the string right justified in a string of length width. Padding is done using the specified fillchar (default is a space). The original string is returned if width is less than len(s).

Changed in version 2.4: Support for the fillchar argument.

str.rpartition(sep)

Split the string at the last occurrence of sep, and return a 3-tuple containing the part before the separator, the separator itself, and the part after the separator. If the separator is not found, return a 3-tuple containing two empty strings, followed by the string itself.

New in version 2.5.

str.rsplit([sep[, maxsplit]])

Return a list of the words in the string, using sep as the delimiter string. If maxsplit is given, at most maxsplit splits are done, the rightmost ones. If sep is not specified or None, any whitespace string is a separator. Except for splitting from the right, rsplit() behaves like split() which is described in detail below.

New in version 2.4.

str.rstrip([chars])

Return a copy of the string with trailing characters removed. The chars argument is a string specifying the set of characters to be removed. If omitted or None, the chars argument defaults to removing whitespace. The chars argument is not a suffix; rather, all combinations of its values are stripped:

>>> ‘ spacious ‘.rstrip()
‘ spacious‘
>>> ‘mississippi‘.rstrip(‘ipz‘)
‘mississ‘

Changed in version 2.2.2: Support for the chars argument.

str.split([sep[, maxsplit]])

Return a list of the words in the string, using sep as the delimiter string. If maxsplit is given, at most maxsplit splits are done (thus, the list will have at most maxsplit+1 elements). If maxsplit is not specified, then there is no limit on the number of splits (all possible splits are made).

If sep is given, consecutive delimiters are not grouped together and are deemed to delimit empty strings (for example, ‘1,,2‘.split(‘,‘) returns [‘1‘, ‘‘, ‘2‘]). The sep argument may consist of multiple characters (for example, ‘1<>2<>3‘.split(‘<>‘) returns [‘1‘, ‘2‘, ‘3‘]). Splitting an empty string with a specified separator returns [‘‘].

If sep is not specified or is None, a different splitting algorithm is applied: runs of consecutive whitespace are regarded as a single separator, and the result will contain no empty strings at the start or end if the string has leading or trailing whitespace. Consequently, splitting an empty string or a string consisting of just whitespace with a None separator returns [].

For example, ‘ 1 2 3 ‘.split() returns [‘1‘, ‘2‘, ‘3‘], and ‘ 1 2 3 ‘.split(None, 1) returns [‘1‘, ‘2 3 ‘].

str.splitlines([keepends])
Return a list of the lines in the string, breaking at line boundaries. Line breaks are not included in the resulting list unless keepends is given and true.

str.startswith(prefix[, start[, end]])

Return True if string starts with the prefix, otherwise return False. prefix can also be a tuple of prefixes to look for. With optional start, test string beginning at that position. With optional end, stop comparing string at that position.

Changed in version 2.5: Accept tuples as prefix.

str.strip([chars])

Return a copy of the string with the leading and trailing characters removed. The chars argument is a string specifying the set of characters to be removed. If omitted or None, the chars argument defaults to removing whitespace. The chars argument is not a prefix or suffix; rather, all combinations of its values are stripped:

>>> ‘

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