Topic 7 - Sequence Types

Question 1

In the following code example, what is the backslash doing?

variable = “She said, "Hello!"”

Answer 1

The backslash is being used as an escape character. This will allow the double quotes to be printed.

Question 2

What escape character is used to enter a tab?

Answer 2

\t

Question 3

How can you stop python from interpreting escape characters?

Answer 3

Though the use of raw strings.

A string will need the ‘r’ prefix.

Example:

string = r’line1\nline2’

Question 4

Using a print statement, how would you print a straight line?

Answer 4

print(‘_’ * 40)

Question 5

What functions is used to find the length of a string?

Answer 5

len