Strings & text
Format, split, join, parse, and clean text — everyday Python string patterns.
How to Convert and Process Text in Python
This code cleans, converts, splits, joins, counts, replaces, reverses, and finds substrings in a text string using Python's standard string methods.
text = " hello world, python is fun! "
# Clean up whitespace
cleaned = text.strip()
# Convert to title case
titled = cleaned.title()
# Split into words
words = cleaned.split()
# Join with hyphens
hyphenated = "-".join(words)
# Count occurrences of a letter
letter_count = cleaned.count("o")
# Replace a word
rep…How to Swap Case of Every Character in Python
Swap uppercase to lowercase and lowercase to uppercase for every character in a string using Python's built-in swapcase() method.
def swap_case(text):
"""
Swap uppercase to lowercase and lowercase to uppercase
for every character in the given string.
"""
return text.swapcase()
if __name__ == "__main__":
sample = "Hello World! Python3.9"
result = swap_case(sample)
print(f"Input: {sample}")
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This page collects strings & text snippets — short, copy-ready Python you can paste into our free online IDE and run without installing anything. Each sample includes a plain-English explanation and the full source code.
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