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Letter Count on a string

Python newb here. I m trying to count the number of letter «a»s in a given string. Code is below. It keeps returning 1 instead 3 in string «banana». Any input appreciated.

def count_letters(word, char): count = 0 while count  

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I think your code was indented correctly. You would have gotten an indentation error.
May 28, 2010 at 21:12

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The other answers show what's wrong with your code. But there's also a built-in way to do this, if you weren't just doing this for an exercise:

>>> 'banana'.count('a') 3 

Danben gave this corrected version:

def count_letters(word, char): count = 0 for c in word: if char == c: count += 1 return count 

Here are some other ways to do it, hopefully they will teach you more about Python!

Similar, but shorter for loop. Exploits the fact that booleans can turn into 1 if true and 0 if false:

def count_letters(word, char): count = 0 for c in word: count += (char == c) return count 

Short for loops can generally be turned into list/generator comprehensions. This creates a list of integers corresponding to each letter, with 0 if the letter doesn't match char and 1 if it does, and then sums them:

def count_letters(word, char): return sum(char == c for c in word) 

The next one filters out all the characters that don't match char , and counts how many are left:

def count_letters(word, char): return len([c for c in word if c == char]) 

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Thank you but yeah i m trying to get my head around the concept.
May 28, 2010 at 21:11

you don't need int() around boolean value in Python: True == 1 and False == 0 ideone.com/k4QLc ideone.com/5dHkK

May 29, 2010 at 18:00
@J.F. Sebastian: very interesting! never knew that. edited to reflect that
May 30, 2010 at 7:56

Here's another variant sum(1 for x in iterable if x == value) . It can be useful if the iterable has no count() method.

Jun 1, 2010 at 18:14
I notice that 'banana'.count('ana') returns 1, rather than 2 as you might expect.
– user1819125
Jan 17, 2013 at 2:02

One problem is that you are using count to refer both to the position in the word that you are checking, and the number of char you have seen, and you are using char to refer both to the input character you are checking, and the current character in the string. Use separate variables instead.

Also, move the return statement outside the loop; otherwise you will always return after checking the first character.

Finally, you only need one loop to iterate over the string. Get rid of the outer while loop and you will not need to track the position in the string.

Taking these suggestions, your code would look like this:

def count_letters(word, char): count = 0 for c in word: if char == c: count += 1 return count 

Built-in Types¶

The following sections describe the standard types that are built into the interpreter.

The principal built-in types are numerics, sequences, mappings, classes, instances and exceptions.

Some collection classes are mutable. The methods that add, subtract, or rearrange their members in place, and don’t return a specific item, never return the collection instance itself but None .

Some operations are supported by several object types; in particular, practically all objects can be compared for equality, tested for truth value, and converted to a string (with the repr() function or the slightly different str() function). The latter function is implicitly used when an object is written by the print() function.

Truth Value Testing¶

Any object can be tested for truth value, for use in an if or while condition or as operand of the Boolean operations below.

By default, an object is considered true unless its class defines either a __bool__() method that returns False or a __len__() method that returns zero, when called with the object. 1 Here are most of the built-in objects considered false:

  • constants defined to be false: None and False
  • zero of any numeric type: 0 , 0.0 , 0j , Decimal(0) , Fraction(0, 1)
  • empty sequences and collections: '' , () , [] , <> , set() , range(0)

Operations and built-in functions that have a Boolean result always return 0 or False for false and 1 or True for true, unless otherwise stated. (Important exception: the Boolean operations or and and always return one of their operands.)

Boolean Operations — and , or , not ¶

These are the Boolean operations, ordered by ascending priority:

if x is false, then True , else False

  1. This is a short-circuit operator, so it only evaluates the second argument if the first one is false.
  2. This is a short-circuit operator, so it only evaluates the second argument if the first one is true.
  3. not has a lower priority than non-Boolean operators, so not a == b is interpreted as not (a == b) , and a == not b is a syntax error.

Comparisons¶

There are eight comparison operations in Python. They all have the same priority (which is higher than that of the Boolean operations). Comparisons can be chained arbitrarily; for example, x < y y is evaluated only once (but in both cases z is not evaluated at all when x < y is found to be false).

This table summarizes the comparison operations:

strictly less than

less than or equal

strictly greater than

greater than or equal

negated object identity

Objects of different types, except different numeric types, never compare equal. The == operator is always defined but for some object types (for example, class objects) is equivalent to is . The < , and >= operators are only defined where they make sense; for example, they raise a TypeError exception when one of the arguments is a complex number.

Non-identical instances of a class normally compare as non-equal unless the class defines the __eq__() method.

Instances of a class cannot be ordered with respect to other instances of the same class, or other types of object, unless the class defines enough of the methods __lt__() , __le__() , __gt__() , and __ge__() (in general, __lt__() and __eq__() are sufficient, if you want the conventional meanings of the comparison operators).

The behavior of the is and is not operators cannot be customized; also they can be applied to any two objects and never raise an exception.

Two more operations with the same syntactic priority, in and not in , are supported by types that are iterable or implement the __contains__() method.

Numeric Types — int , float , complex ¶

There are three distinct numeric types: integers, floating point numbers, and complex numbers. In addition, Booleans are a subtype of integers. Integers have unlimited precision. Floating point numbers are usually implemented using double in C; information about the precision and internal representation of floating point numbers for the machine on which your program is running is available in sys.float_info . Complex numbers have a real and imaginary part, which are each a floating point number. To extract these parts from a complex number z, use z.real and z.imag . (The standard library includes the additional numeric types fractions.Fraction , for rationals, and decimal.Decimal , for floating-point numbers with user-definable precision.)

Numbers are created by numeric literals or as the result of built-in functions and operators. Unadorned integer literals (including hex, octal and binary numbers) yield integers. Numeric literals containing a decimal point or an exponent sign yield floating point numbers. Appending 'j' or 'J' to a numeric literal yields an imaginary number (a complex number with a zero real part) which you can add to an integer or float to get a complex number with real and imaginary parts.

Python fully supports mixed arithmetic: when a binary arithmetic operator has operands of different numeric types, the operand with the “narrower” type is widened to that of the other, where integer is narrower than floating point, which is narrower than complex. A comparison between numbers of different types behaves as though the exact values of those numbers were being compared. 2

The constructors int() , float() , and complex() can be used to produce numbers of a specific type.

All numeric types (except complex) support the following operations (for priorities of the operations, see Operator precedence ):

difference of x and y

floored quotient of x and y

remainder of x / y

absolute value or magnitude of x

x converted to integer

x converted to floating point

a complex number with real part re, imaginary part im. im defaults to zero.

conjugate of the complex number c

the pair (x // y, x % y)

  1. Also referred to as integer division. For operands of type int , the result has type int . For operands of type float , the result has type float . In general, the result is a whole integer, though the result’s type is not necessarily int . The result is always rounded towards minus infinity: 1//2 is 0 , (-1)//2 is -1 , 1//(-2) is -1 , and (-1)//(-2) is 0 .
  2. Not for complex numbers. Instead convert to floats using abs() if appropriate.
  3. Conversion from float to int truncates, discarding the fractional part. See functions math.floor() and math.ceil() for alternative conversions.
  4. float also accepts the strings “nan” and “inf” with an optional prefix “+” or “-” for Not a Number (NaN) and positive or negative infinity.
  5. Python defines pow(0, 0) and 0 ** 0 to be 1 , as is common for programming languages.
  6. The numeric literals accepted include the digits 0 to 9 or any Unicode equivalent (code points with the Nd property). See the Unicode Standard for a complete list of code points with the Nd property.

All numbers.Real types ( int and float ) also include the following operations:

x rounded to n digits, rounding half to even. If n is omitted, it defaults to 0.

For additional numeric operations see the math and cmath modules.

Bitwise Operations on Integer Types¶

Bitwise operations only make sense for integers. The result of bitwise operations is calculated as though carried out in two’s complement with an infinite number of sign bits.

The priorities of the binary bitwise operations are all lower than the numeric operations and higher than the comparisons; the unary operation ~ has the same priority as the other unary numeric operations ( + and - ).

This table lists the bitwise operations sorted in ascending priority:

bitwise exclusive or of x and y

x shifted left by n bits

x shifted right by n bits

the bits of x inverted

  1. Negative shift counts are illegal and cause a ValueError to be raised.
  2. A left shift by n bits is equivalent to multiplication by pow(2, n) .
  3. A right shift by n bits is equivalent to floor division by pow(2, n) .
  4. Performing these calculations with at least one extra sign extension bit in a finite two’s complement representation (a working bit-width of 1 + max(x.bit_length(), y.bit_length()) or more) is sufficient to get the same result as if there were an infinite number of sign bits.

Additional Methods on Integer Types¶

The int type implements the numbers.Integral abstract base class . In addition, it provides a few more methods:

Return the number of bits necessary to represent an integer in binary, excluding the sign and leading zeros:

>>> n = -37 >>> bin(n) '-0b100101' >>> n.bit_length() 6 
def bit_length(self): s = bin(self) # binary representation: bin(-37) --> '-0b100101' s = s.lstrip('-0b') # remove leading zeros and minus sign return len(s) # len('100101') --> 6 

New in version 3.1.

int. bit_count ( ) ¶

Return the number of ones in the binary representation of the absolute value of the integer. This is also known as the population count. Example:

>>> n = 19 >>> bin(n) '0b10011' >>> n.bit_count() 3 >>> (-n).bit_count() 3 
def bit_count(self): return bin(self).count("1") 

New in version 3.10.

int. to_bytes ( length = 1 , byteorder = 'big' , * , signed = False ) ¶

Return an array of bytes representing an integer.

>>> (1024).to_bytes(2, byteorder='big') b'\x04\x00' >>> (1024).to_bytes(10, byteorder='big') b'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x04\x00' >>> (-1024).to_bytes(10, byteorder='big', signed=True) b'\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xfc\x00' >>> x = 1000 >>> x.to_bytes((x.bit_length() + 7) // 8, byteorder='little') b'\xe8\x03' 

The integer is represented using length bytes, and defaults to 1. An OverflowError is raised if the integer is not representable with the given number of bytes.

The byteorder argument determines the byte order used to represent the integer, and defaults to "big" . If byteorder is "big" , the most significant byte is at the beginning of the byte array. If byteorder is "little" , the most significant byte is at the end of the byte array.

The signed argument determines whether two’s complement is used to represent the integer. If signed is False and a negative integer is given, an OverflowError is raised. The default value for signed is False .

The default values can be used to conveniently turn an integer into a single byte object:

>>> (65).to_bytes() b'A' 

However, when using the default arguments, don’t try to convert a value greater than 255 or you’ll get an OverflowError .

def to_bytes(n, length=1, byteorder='big', signed=False): if byteorder == 'little': order = range(length) elif byteorder == 'big': order = reversed(range(length)) else: raise ValueError("byteorder must be either 'little' or 'big'") return bytes((n >> i*8) & 0xff for i in order) 

New in version 3.2.

Changed in version 3.11: Added default argument values for length and byteorder .

classmethod int. from_bytes ( bytes , byteorder = 'big' , * , signed = False ) ¶

Return the integer represented by the given array of bytes.

>>> int.from_bytes(b'\x00\x10', byteorder='big') 16 >>> int.from_bytes(b'\x00\x10', byteorder='little') 4096 >>> int.from_bytes(b'\xfc\x00', byteorder='big', signed=True) -1024 >>> int.from_bytes(b'\xfc\x00', byteorder='big', signed=False) 64512 >>> int.from_bytes([255, 0, 0], byteorder='big') 16711680 

The argument bytes must either be a bytes-like object or an iterable producing bytes.

The byteorder argument determines the byte order used to represent the integer, and defaults to "big" . If byteorder is "big" , the most significant byte is at the beginning of the byte array. If byteorder is "little" , the most significant byte is at the end of the byte array. To request the native byte order of the host system, use sys.byteorder as the byte order value.

The signed argument indicates whether two’s complement is used to represent the integer.

def from_bytes(bytes, byteorder='big', signed=False): if byteorder == 'little': little_ordered = list(bytes) elif byteorder == 'big': little_ordered = list(reversed(bytes)) else: raise ValueError("byteorder must be either 'little' or 'big'") n = sum(b  i*8 for i, b in enumerate(little_ordered)) if signed and little_ordered and (little_ordered[-1] & 0x80): n -= 1  8*len(little_ordered) return n 

New in version 3.2.

Changed in version 3.11: Added default argument value for byteorder .

int. as_integer_ratio ( ) ¶

Return a pair of integers whose ratio is equal to the original integer and has a positive denominator. The integer ratio of integers (whole numbers) is always the integer as the numerator and 1 as the denominator.

New in version 3.8.

int. is_integer ( ) ¶

Returns True . Exists for duck type compatibility with float.is_integer() .

New in version 3.12.

Additional Methods on Float¶

The float type implements the numbers.Real abstract base class . float also has the following additional methods.

Return a pair of integers whose ratio is exactly equal to the original float. The ratio is in lowest terms and has a positive denominator. Raises OverflowError on infinities and a ValueError on NaNs.

Return True if the float instance is finite with integral value, and False otherwise:

>>> (-2.0).is_integer() True >>> (3.2).is_integer() False 

Two methods support conversion to and from hexadecimal strings. Since Python’s floats are stored internally as binary numbers, converting a float to or from a decimal string usually involves a small rounding error. In contrast, hexadecimal strings allow exact representation and specification of floating-point numbers. This can be useful when debugging, and in numerical work.

Return a representation of a floating-point number as a hexadecimal string. For finite floating-point numbers, this representation will always include a leading 0x and a trailing p and exponent.

classmethod float. fromhex ( s ) ¶

Class method to return the float represented by a hexadecimal string s. The string s may have leading and trailing whitespace.

Note that float.hex() is an instance method, while float.fromhex() is a class method.

A hexadecimal string takes the form:

[sign] ['0x'] integer ['.' fraction] ['p' exponent] 

where the optional sign may by either + or - , integer and fraction are strings of hexadecimal digits, and exponent is a decimal integer with an optional leading sign. Case is not significant, and there must be at least one hexadecimal digit in either the integer or the fraction. This syntax is similar to the syntax specified in section 6.4.4.2 of the C99 standard, and also to the syntax used in Java 1.5 onwards. In particular, the output of float.hex() is usable as a hexadecimal floating-point literal in C or Java code, and hexadecimal strings produced by C’s %a format character or Java’s Double.toHexString are accepted by float.fromhex() .

Note that the exponent is written in decimal rather than hexadecimal, and that it gives the power of 2 by which to multiply the coefficient. For example, the hexadecimal string 0x3.a7p10 represents the floating-point number (3 + 10./16 + 7./16**2) * 2.0**10 , or 3740.0 :

>>> float.fromhex('0x3.a7p10') 3740.0 

Applying the reverse conversion to 3740.0 gives a different hexadecimal string representing the same number:

>>> float.hex(3740.0) '0x1.d380000000000p+11' 

Hashing of numeric types¶

For numbers x and y , possibly of different types, it’s a requirement that hash(x) == hash(y) whenever x == y (see the __hash__() method documentation for more details). For ease of implementation and efficiency across a variety of numeric types (including int , float , decimal.Decimal and fractions.Fraction ) Python’s hash for numeric types is based on a single mathematical function that’s defined for any rational number, and hence applies to all instances of int and fractions.Fraction , and all finite instances of float and decimal.Decimal . Essentially, this function is given by reduction modulo P for a fixed prime P . The value of P is made available to Python as the modulus attribute of sys.hash_info .

CPython implementation detail: Currently, the prime used is P = 2**31 - 1 on machines with 32-bit C longs and P = 2**61 - 1 on machines with 64-bit C longs.

Here are the rules in detail:

  • If x = m / n is a nonnegative rational number and n is not divisible by P , define hash(x) as m * invmod(n, P) % P , where invmod(n, P) gives the inverse of n modulo P .
  • If x = m / n is a nonnegative rational number and n is divisible by P (but m is not) then n has no inverse modulo P and the rule above doesn’t apply; in this case define hash(x) to be the constant value sys.hash_info.inf .
  • If x = m / n is a negative rational number define hash(x) as -hash(-x) . If the resulting hash is -1 , replace it with -2 .
  • The particular values sys.hash_info.inf and -sys.hash_info.inf are used as hash values for positive infinity or negative infinity (respectively).
  • For a complex number z , the hash values of the real and imaginary parts are combined by computing hash(z.real) + sys.hash_info.imag * hash(z.imag) , reduced modulo 2**sys.hash_info.width so that it lies in range(-2**(sys.hash_info.width - 1), 2**(sys.hash_info.width - 1)) . Again, if the result is -1 , it’s replaced with -2 .

To clarify the above rules, here’s some example Python code, equivalent to the built-in hash, for computing the hash of a rational number, float , or complex :

import sys, math def hash_fraction(m, n): """Compute the hash of a rational number m / n. Assumes m and n are integers, with n positive. Equivalent to hash(fractions.Fraction(m, n)). """ P = sys.hash_info.modulus # Remove common factors of P. (Unnecessary if m and n already coprime.) while m % P == n % P == 0: m, n = m // P, n // P if n % P == 0: hash_value = sys.hash_info.inf else: # Fermat's Little Theorem: pow(n, P-1, P) is 1, so # pow(n, P-2, P) gives the inverse of n modulo P. hash_value = (abs(m) % P) * pow(n, P - 2, P) % P if m  0: hash_value = -hash_value if hash_value == -1: hash_value = -2 return hash_value def hash_float(x): """Compute the hash of a float x.""" if math.isnan(x): return object.__hash__(x) elif math.isinf(x): return sys.hash_info.inf if x > 0 else -sys.hash_info.inf else: return hash_fraction(*x.as_integer_ratio()) def hash_complex(z): """Compute the hash of a complex number z.""" hash_value = hash_float(z.real) + sys.hash_info.imag * hash_float(z.imag) # do a signed reduction modulo 2**sys.hash_info.width M = 2**(sys.hash_info.width - 1) hash_value = (hash_value & (M - 1)) - (hash_value & M) if hash_value == -1: hash_value = -2 return hash_value 

Boolean Type - bool ¶

Booleans represent truth values. The bool type has exactly two constant instances: True and False .

The built-in function bool() converts any value to a boolean, if the value can be interpreted as a truth value (see section Truth Value Testing above).

For logical operations, use the boolean operators and , or and not . When applying the bitwise operators & , | , ^ to two booleans, they return a bool equivalent to the logical operations “and”, “or”, “xor”. However, the logical operators and , or and != should be preferred over & , | and ^ .

Deprecated since version 3.12: The use of the bitwise inversion operator ~ is deprecated and will raise an error in Python 3.14.

bool is a subclass of int (see Numeric Types — int, float, complex ). In many numeric contexts, False and True behave like the integers 0 and 1, respectively. However, relying on this is discouraged; explicitly convert using int() instead.

Iterator Types¶

Python supports a concept of iteration over containers. This is implemented using two distinct methods; these are used to allow user-defined classes to support iteration. Sequences, described below in more detail, always support the iteration methods.

One method needs to be defined for container objects to provide iterable support:

Return an iterator object. The object is required to support the iterator protocol described below. If a container supports different types of iteration, additional methods can be provided to specifically request iterators for those iteration types. (An example of an object supporting multiple forms of iteration would be a tree structure which supports both breadth-first and depth-first traversal.) This method corresponds to the tp_iter slot of the type structure for Python objects in the Python/C API.

The iterator objects themselves are required to support the following two methods, which together form the iterator protocol:

Return the iterator object itself. This is required to allow both containers and iterators to be used with the for and in statements. This method corresponds to the tp_iter slot of the type structure for Python objects in the Python/C API.

Return the next item from the iterator . If there are no further items, raise the StopIteration exception. This method corresponds to the tp_iternext slot of the type structure for Python objects in the Python/C API.

Python defines several iterator objects to support iteration over general and specific sequence types, dictionaries, and other more specialized forms. The specific types are not important beyond their implementation of the iterator protocol.

Once an iterator’s __next__() method raises StopIteration , it must continue to do so on subsequent calls. Implementations that do not obey this property are deemed broken.

Generator Types¶

Python’s generator s provide a convenient way to implement the iterator protocol. If a container object’s __iter__() method is implemented as a generator, it will automatically return an iterator object (technically, a generator object) supplying the __iter__() and __next__() methods. More information about generators can be found in the documentation for the yield expression .

Sequence Types — list , tuple , range ¶

There are three basic sequence types: lists, tuples, and range objects. Additional sequence types tailored for processing of binary data and text strings are described in dedicated sections.

Common Sequence Operations¶

The operations in the following table are supported by most sequence types, both mutable and immutable. The collections.abc.Sequence ABC is provided to make it easier to correctly implement these operations on custom sequence types.

This table lists the sequence operations sorted in ascending priority. In the table, s and t are sequences of the same type, n, i, j and k are integers and x is an arbitrary object that meets any type and value restrictions imposed by s.

The in and not in operations have the same priorities as the comparison operations. The + (concatenation) and * (repetition) operations have the same priority as the corresponding numeric operations. 3

True if an item of s is equal to x, else False

False if an item of s is equal to x, else True

the concatenation of s and t

equivalent to adding s to itself n times

ith item of s, origin 0

slice of s from i to j with step k

smallest item of s

largest item of s

index of the first occurrence of x in s (at or after index i and before index j)

total number of occurrences of x in s

Sequences of the same type also support comparisons. In particular, tuples and lists are compared lexicographically by comparing corresponding elements. This means that to compare equal, every element must compare equal and the two sequences must be of the same type and have the same length. (For full details see Comparisons in the language reference.)

Forward and reversed iterators over mutable sequences access values using an index. That index will continue to march forward (or backward) even if the underlying sequence is mutated. The iterator terminates only when an IndexError or a StopIteration is encountered (or when the index drops below zero).

    While the in and not in operations are used only for simple containment testing in the general case, some specialised sequences (such as str , bytes and bytearray ) also use them for subsequence testing:

>>> "gg" in "eggs" True 
>>> lists = [[]] * 3 >>> lists [[], [], []] >>> lists[0].append(3) >>> lists [[3], [3], [3]] 

What has happened is that [[]] is a one-element list containing an empty list, so all three elements of [[]] * 3 are references to this single empty list. Modifying any of the elements of lists modifies this single list. You can create a list of different lists this way:

>>> lists = [[] for i in range(3)] >>> lists[0].append(3) >>> lists[1].append(5) >>> lists[2].append(7) >>> lists [[3], [5], [7]] 
  • if concatenating str objects, you can build a list and use str.join() at the end or else write to an io.StringIO instance and retrieve its value when complete
  • if concatenating bytes objects, you can similarly use bytes.join() or io.BytesIO , or you can do in-place concatenation with a bytearray object. bytearray objects are mutable and have an efficient overallocation mechanism
  • if concatenating tuple objects, extend a list instead
  • for other types, investigate the relevant class documentation

Immutable Sequence Types¶

The only operation that immutable sequence types generally implement that is not also implemented by mutable sequence types is support for the hash() built-in.

This support allows immutable sequences, such as tuple instances, to be used as dict keys and stored in set and frozenset instances.

Attempting to hash an immutable sequence that contains unhashable values will result in TypeError .

Mutable Sequence Types¶

The operations in the following table are defined on mutable sequence types. The collections.abc.MutableSequence ABC is provided to make it easier to correctly implement these operations on custom sequence types.

In the table s is an instance of a mutable sequence type, t is any iterable object and x is an arbitrary object that meets any type and value restrictions imposed by s (for example, bytearray only accepts integers that meet the value restriction 0

item i of s is replaced by x

slice of s from i to j is replaced by the contents of the iterable t

the elements of s[i:j:k] are replaced by those of t

removes the elements of s[i:j:k] from the list

appends x to the end of the sequence (same as s[len(s):len(s)] = [x] )

removes all items from s (same as del s[:] )

creates a shallow copy of s (same as s[:] )

s.extend(t) or s += t

extends s with the contents of t (for the most part the same as s[len(s):len(s)] = t )

updates s with its contents repeated n times

inserts x into s at the index given by i (same as s[i:i] = [x] )

retrieves the item at i and also removes it from s

remove the first item from s where s[i] is equal to x

reverses the items of s in place

  1. t must have the same length as the slice it is replacing.
  2. The optional argument i defaults to -1 , so that by default the last item is removed and returned.
  3. remove() raises ValueError when x is not found in s.
  4. The reverse() method modifies the sequence in place for economy of space when reversing a large sequence. To remind users that it operates by side effect, it does not return the reversed sequence.
  5. clear() and copy() are included for consistency with the interfaces of mutable containers that don’t support slicing operations (such as dict and set ). copy() is not part of the collections.abc.MutableSequence ABC, but most concrete mutable sequence classes provide it.

New in version 3.3: clear() and copy() methods.

Lists¶

Lists are mutable sequences, typically used to store collections of homogeneous items (where the precise degree of similarity will vary by application).

Lists may be constructed in several ways:

  • Using a pair of square brackets to denote the empty list: []
  • Using square brackets, separating items with commas: [a] , [a, b, c]
  • Using a list comprehension: [x for x in iterable]
  • Using the type constructor: list() or list(iterable)

The constructor builds a list whose items are the same and in the same order as iterable’s items. iterable may be either a sequence, a container that supports iteration, or an iterator object. If iterable is already a list, a copy is made and returned, similar to iterable[:] . For example, list('abc') returns ['a', 'b', 'c'] and list( (1, 2, 3) ) returns [1, 2, 3] . If no argument is given, the constructor creates a new empty list, [] .

Many other operations also produce lists, including the sorted() built-in.

Lists implement all of the common and mutable sequence operations. Lists also provide the following additional method:

sort ( * , key = None , reverse = False ) ¶

sort() accepts two arguments that can only be passed by keyword ( keyword-only arguments ):

key specifies a function of one argument that is used to extract a comparison key from each list element (for example, key=str.lower ). The key corresponding to each item in the list is calculated once and then used for the entire sorting process. The default value of None means that list items are sorted directly without calculating a separate key value.

The functools.cmp_to_key() utility is available to convert a 2.x style cmp function to a key function.

reverse is a boolean value. If set to True , then the list elements are sorted as if each comparison were reversed.

This method modifies the sequence in place for economy of space when sorting a large sequence. To remind users that it operates by side effect, it does not return the sorted sequence (use sorted() to explicitly request a new sorted list instance).

The sort() method is guaranteed to be stable. A sort is stable if it guarantees not to change the relative order of elements that compare equal — this is helpful for sorting in multiple passes (for example, sort by department, then by salary grade).

For sorting examples and a brief sorting tutorial, see Sorting HOW TO .

CPython implementation detail: While a list is being sorted, the effect of attempting to mutate, or even inspect, the list is undefined. The C implementation of Python makes the list appear empty for the duration, and raises ValueError if it can detect that the list has been mutated during a sort.

Tuples¶

Tuples are immutable sequences, typically used to store collections of heterogeneous data (such as the 2-tuples produced by the enumerate() built-in). Tuples are also used for cases where an immutable sequence of homogeneous data is needed (such as allowing storage in a set or dict instance).

Tuples may be constructed in a number of ways:

  • Using a pair of parentheses to denote the empty tuple: ()
  • Using a trailing comma for a singleton tuple: a, or (a,)
  • Separating items with commas: a, b, c or (a, b, c)
  • Using the tuple() built-in: tuple() or tuple(iterable)

The constructor builds a tuple whose items are the same and in the same order as iterable’s items. iterable may be either a sequence, a container that supports iteration, or an iterator object. If iterable is already a tuple, it is returned unchanged. For example, tuple('abc') returns ('a', 'b', 'c') and tuple( [1, 2, 3] ) returns (1, 2, 3) . If no argument is given, the constructor creates a new empty tuple, () .

Note that it is actually the comma which makes a tuple, not the parentheses. The parentheses are optional, except in the empty tuple case, or when they are needed to avoid syntactic ambiguity. For example, f(a, b, c) is a function call with three arguments, while f((a, b, c)) is a function call with a 3-tuple as the sole argument.

Tuples implement all of the common sequence operations.

For heterogeneous collections of data where access by name is clearer than access by index, collections.namedtuple() may be a more appropriate choice than a simple tuple object.

Ranges¶

The range type represents an immutable sequence of numbers and is commonly used for looping a specific number of times in for loops.

The arguments to the range constructor must be integers (either built-in int or any object that implements the __index__() special method). If the step argument is omitted, it defaults to 1 . If the start argument is omitted, it defaults to 0 . If step is zero, ValueError is raised.

For a positive step, the contents of a range r are determined by the formula r[i] = start + step*i where i >= 0 and r[i] < stop .

For a negative step, the contents of the range are still determined by the formula r[i] = start + step*i , but the constraints are i >= 0 and r[i] > stop .

A range object will be empty if r[0] does not meet the value constraint. Ranges do support negative indices, but these are interpreted as indexing from the end of the sequence determined by the positive indices.

Ranges containing absolute values larger than sys.maxsize are permitted but some features (such as len() ) may raise OverflowError .

>>> list(range(10)) [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] >>> list(range(1, 11)) [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] >>> list(range(0, 30, 5)) [0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25] >>> list(range(0, 10, 3)) [0, 3, 6, 9] >>> list(range(0, -10, -1)) [0, -1, -2, -3, -4, -5, -6, -7, -8, -9] >>> list(range(0)) [] >>> list(range(1, 0)) [] 

Ranges implement all of the common sequence operations except concatenation and repetition (due to the fact that range objects can only represent sequences that follow a strict pattern and repetition and concatenation will usually violate that pattern).

The value of the start parameter (or 0 if the parameter was not supplied)

The value of the stop parameter

The value of the step parameter (or 1 if the parameter was not supplied)

The advantage of the range type over a regular list or tuple is that a range object will always take the same (small) amount of memory, no matter the size of the range it represents (as it only stores the start , stop and step values, calculating individual items and subranges as needed).

Range objects implement the collections.abc.Sequence ABC, and provide features such as containment tests, element index lookup, slicing and support for negative indices (see Sequence Types — list, tuple, range ):

>>> r = range(0, 20, 2) >>> r range(0, 20, 2) >>> 11 in r False >>> 10 in r True >>> r.index(10) 5 >>> r[5] 10 >>> r[:5] range(0, 10, 2) >>> r[-1] 18 

Testing range objects for equality with == and != compares them as sequences. That is, two range objects are considered equal if they represent the same sequence of values. (Note that two range objects that compare equal might have different start , stop and step attributes, for example range(0) == range(2, 1, 3) or range(0, 3, 2) == range(0, 4, 2) .)

Changed in version 3.2: Implement the Sequence ABC. Support slicing and negative indices. Test int objects for membership in constant time instead of iterating through all items.

Changed in version 3.3: Define ‘==’ and ‘!=’ to compare range objects based on the sequence of values they define (instead of comparing based on object identity).

New in version 3.3: The start , stop and step attributes.

  • The linspace recipe shows how to implement a lazy version of range suitable for floating point applications.

Text Sequence Type — str ¶

Textual data in Python is handled with str objects, or strings. Strings are immutable sequences of Unicode code points. String literals are written in a variety of ways:

  • Single quotes: 'allows embedded "double" quotes'
  • Double quotes: "allows embedded 'single' quotes"
  • Triple quoted: '''Three single quotes''' , """Three double quotes"""

Triple quoted strings may span multiple lines - all associated whitespace will be included in the string literal.

String literals that are part of a single expression and have only whitespace between them will be implicitly converted to a single string literal. That is, ("spam " "eggs") == "spam eggs" .

See String and Bytes literals for more about the various forms of string literal, including supported escape sequences, and the r (“raw”) prefix that disables most escape sequence processing.

Strings may also be created from other objects using the str constructor.

Since there is no separate “character” type, indexing a string produces strings of length 1. That is, for a non-empty string s, s[0] == s[0:1] .

There is also no mutable string type, but str.join() or io.StringIO can be used to efficiently construct strings from multiple fragments.

Changed in version 3.3: For backwards compatibility with the Python 2 series, the u prefix is once again permitted on string literals. It has no effect on the meaning of string literals and cannot be combined with the r prefix.

class str ( object = '' ) ¶ class str ( object = b'' , encoding = 'utf-8' , errors = 'strict' )

Return a string version of object. If object is not provided, returns the empty string. Otherwise, the behavior of str() depends on whether encoding or errors is given, as follows.

If neither encoding nor errors is given, str(object) returns type(object).__str__(object) , which is the “informal” or nicely printable string representation of object. For string objects, this is the string itself. If object does not have a __str__() method, then str() falls back to returning repr(object) .

If at least one of encoding or errors is given, object should be a bytes-like object (e.g. bytes or bytearray ). In this case, if object is a bytes (or bytearray ) object, then str(bytes, encoding, errors) is equivalent to bytes.decode(encoding, errors) . Otherwise, the bytes object underlying the buffer object is obtained before calling bytes.decode() . See Binary Sequence Types — bytes, bytearray, memoryview and Buffer Protocol for information on buffer objects.

Passing a bytes object to str() without the encoding or errors arguments falls under the first case of returning the informal string representation (see also the -b command-line option to Python). For example:

>>> str(b'Zoot!') "b'Zoot!'" 

For more information on the str class and its methods, see Text Sequence Type — str and the String Methods section below. To output formatted strings, see the Formatted string literals and Format String Syntax sections. In addition, see the Text Processing Services section.

String Methods¶

Strings implement all of the common sequence operations, along with the additional methods described below.

Strings also support two styles of string formatting, one providing a large degree of flexibility and customization (see str.format() , Format String Syntax and Custom String Formatting ) and the other based on C printf style formatting that handles a narrower range of types and is slightly harder to use correctly, but is often faster for the cases it can handle ( printf-style String Formatting ).

The Text Processing Services section of the standard library covers a number of other modules that provide various text related utilities (including regular expression support in the re module).

Return a copy of the string with its first character capitalized and the rest lowercased.

Changed in version 3.8: The first character is now put into titlecase rather than uppercase. This means that characters like digraphs will only have their first letter capitalized, instead of the full character.

str. casefold ( ) ¶

Return a casefolded copy of the string. Casefolded strings may be used for caseless matching.

Casefolding is similar to lowercasing but more aggressive because it is intended to remove all case distinctions in a string. For example, the German lowercase letter 'ß' is equivalent to "ss" . Since it is already lowercase, lower() would do nothing to 'ß' ; casefold() converts it to "ss" .

New in version 3.3.

str. center ( width [ , fillchar ] ) ¶

Return centered in a string of length width. Padding is done using the specified fillchar (default is an ASCII space). The original string is returned if width is less than or equal to len(s) .

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.

If sub is empty, returns the number of empty strings between characters which is the length of the string plus one.

str. encode ( encoding = 'utf-8' , errors = 'strict' ) ¶

Return the string encoded to bytes .

encoding defaults to 'utf-8' ; see Standard Encodings for possible values.

errors controls how encoding errors are handled. If 'strict' (the default), a UnicodeError exception is raised. Other possible values are 'ignore' , 'replace' , 'xmlcharrefreplace' , 'backslashreplace' and any other name registered via codecs.register_error() . See Error Handlers for details.

For performance reasons, the value of errors is not checked for validity unless an encoding error actually occurs, Python Development Mode is enabled or a debug build is used.

Changed in version 3.1: Added support for keyword arguments.

Changed in version 3.9: The value of the errors argument is now checked in Python Development Mode and in debug mode .

str. endswith ( suffix [ , start [ , end ] ] ) ¶

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 = 8 ) ¶

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. Tab positions occur every tabsize characters (default is 8, giving tab positions at columns 0, 8, 16 and so on). To expand the string, the current column is set to zero and the string is examined character by character. If the character is a tab ( \t ), one or more space characters are inserted in the result until the current column is equal to the next tab position. (The tab character itself is not copied.) If the character is a newline ( \n ) or return ( \r ), it is copied and the current column is reset to zero. Any other character is copied unchanged and the current column is incremented by one regardless of how the character is represented when printed.

>>> '01\t012\t0123\t01234'.expandtabs() '01 012 0123 01234' >>> '01\t012\t0123\t01234'.expandtabs(4) '01 012 0123 01234' 

str. find ( sub [ , start [ , end ] ] ) ¶

Return the lowest index in the string where substring sub is found within the slice s[start:end] . Optional arguments start and end are interpreted as in slice notation. Return -1 if sub is not found.

The find() method should be used only if you need to know the position of sub. To check if sub is a substring or not, use the in operator:

>>> 'Py' in 'Python' True 

str. format ( * args , ** kwargs ) ¶

Perform a string formatting operation. The string on which this method is called 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 the string where each replacement field is replaced with the string value of the corresponding argument.

>>> "The sum of 1 + 2 is ".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.

When formatting a number ( int , float , complex , decimal.Decimal and subclasses) with the n type (ex: ''.format(1234) ), the function temporarily sets the LC_CTYPE locale to the LC_NUMERIC locale to decode decimal_point and thousands_sep fields of localeconv() if they are non-ASCII or longer than 1 byte, and the LC_NUMERIC locale is different than the LC_CTYPE locale. This temporary change affects other threads.

Changed in version 3.7: When formatting a number with the n type, the function sets temporarily the LC_CTYPE locale to the LC_NUMERIC locale in some cases.

str. format_map ( mapping ) ¶

Similar to str.format(**mapping) , except that mapping is used directly and not copied to a dict . This is useful if for example mapping is a dict subclass:

>>> class Default(dict): . def __missing__(self, key): . return key . >>> '  was born in '.format_map(Default(name='Guido')) 'Guido was born in country' 

New in version 3.2.

str. index ( sub [ , start [ , end ] ] ) ¶

Like find() , but raise ValueError when the substring is not found.

Return True if all characters in the string are alphanumeric and there is at least one character, False otherwise. A character c is alphanumeric if one of the following returns True : c.isalpha() , c.isdecimal() , c.isdigit() , or c.isnumeric() .

Return True if all characters in the string are alphabetic and there is at least one character, False otherwise. Alphabetic characters are those characters defined in the Unicode character database as “Letter”, i.e., those with general category property being one of “Lm”, “Lt”, “Lu”, “Ll”, or “Lo”. Note that this is different from the Alphabetic property defined in the section 4.10 ‘Letters, Alphabetic, and Ideographic’ of the Unicode Standard.

Return True if the string is empty or all characters in the string are ASCII, False otherwise. ASCII characters have code points in the range U+0000-U+007F.

New in version 3.7.

str. isdecimal ( ) ¶

Return True if all characters in the string are decimal characters and there is at least one character, False otherwise. Decimal characters are those that can be used to form numbers in base 10, e.g. U+0660, ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT ZERO. Formally a decimal character is a character in the Unicode General Category “Nd”.

Return True if all characters in the string are digits and there is at least one character, False otherwise. Digits include decimal characters and digits that need special handling, such as the compatibility superscript digits. This covers digits which cannot be used to form numbers in base 10, like the Kharosthi numbers. Formally, a digit is a character that has the property value Numeric_Type=Digit or Numeric_Type=Decimal.

Return True if the string is a valid identifier according to the language definition, section Identifiers and keywords .

keyword.iskeyword() can be used to test whether string s is a reserved identifier, such as def and class .

>>> from keyword import iskeyword >>> 'hello'.isidentifier(), iskeyword('hello') (True, False) >>> 'def'.isidentifier(), iskeyword('def') (True, True) 

str. islower ( ) ¶

Return True if all cased characters 4 in the string are lowercase and there is at least one cased character, False otherwise.

Return True if all characters in the string are numeric characters, and there is at least one character, False otherwise. Numeric characters include digit characters, and all characters that have the Unicode numeric value property, e.g. U+2155, VULGAR FRACTION ONE FIFTH. Formally, numeric characters are those with the property value Numeric_Type=Digit, Numeric_Type=Decimal or Numeric_Type=Numeric.

Return True if all characters in the string are printable or the string is empty, False otherwise. Nonprintable characters are those characters defined in the Unicode character database as “Other” or “Separator”, excepting the ASCII space (0x20) which is considered printable. (Note that printable characters in this context are those which should not be escaped when repr() is invoked on a string. It has no bearing on the handling of strings written to sys.stdout or sys.stderr .)

Return True if there are only whitespace characters in the string and there is at least one character, False otherwise.

A character is whitespace if in the Unicode character database (see unicodedata ), either its general category is Zs (“Separator, space”), or its bidirectional class is one of WS , B , or S .

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.

Return True if all cased characters 4 in the string are uppercase and there is at least one cased character, False otherwise.

>>> 'BANANA'.isupper() True >>> 'banana'.isupper() False >>> 'baNana'.isupper() False >>> ' '.isupper() False 

str. join ( iterable ) ¶

Return a string which is the concatenation of the strings in iterable. A TypeError will be raised if there are any non-string values in iterable, including bytes objects. 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 an ASCII space). The original string is returned if width is less than or equal to len(s) .

Return a copy of the string with all the cased characters 4 converted to lowercase.

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' 

See str.removeprefix() for a method that will remove a single prefix string rather than all of a set of characters. For example:

>>> 'Arthur: three!'.lstrip('Arthur: ') 'ee!' >>> 'Arthur: three!'.removeprefix('Arthur: ') 'three!' 

static str. maketrans ( x [ , y [ , z ] ] ) ¶

This static method returns a translation table usable for str.translate() .

If there is only one argument, it must be a dictionary mapping Unicode ordinals (integers) or characters (strings of length 1) to Unicode ordinals, strings (of arbitrary lengths) or None . Character keys will then be converted to ordinals.

If there are two arguments, they must be strings of equal length, and in the resulting dictionary, each character in x will be mapped to the character at the same position in y. If there is a third argument, it must be a string, whose characters will be mapped to None in the result.

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.

If the string starts with the prefix string, return string[len(prefix):] . Otherwise, return a copy of the original string:

>>> 'TestHook'.removeprefix('Test') 'Hook' >>> 'BaseTestCase'.removeprefix('Test') 'BaseTestCase' 

New in version 3.9.

str. removesuffix ( suffix , / ) ¶

If the string ends with the suffix string and that suffix is not empty, return string[:-len(suffix)] . Otherwise, return a copy of the original string:

>>> 'MiscTests'.removesuffix('Tests') 'Misc' >>> 'TmpDirMixin'.removesuffix('Tests') 'TmpDirMixin' 

New in version 3.9.

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.

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.

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 an ASCII space). The original string is returned if width is less than or equal to len(s) .

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.

str. rsplit ( sep = None , maxsplit = - 1 ) ¶

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.

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' 

See str.removesuffix() for a method that will remove a single suffix string rather than all of a set of characters. For example:

>>> 'Monty Python'.rstrip(' Python') 'M' >>> 'Monty Python'.removesuffix(' Python') 'Monty' 

str. split ( sep = None , maxsplit = - 1 ) ¶

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 or -1 , 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 [''] .

>>> '1,2,3'.split(',') ['1', '2', '3'] >>> '1,2,3'.split(',', maxsplit=1) ['1', '2,3'] >>> '1,2,,3,'.split(',') ['1', '2', '', '3', ''] 

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 [] .

>>> '1 2 3'.split() ['1', '2', '3'] >>> '1 2 3'.split(maxsplit=1) ['1', '2 3'] >>> ' 1 2 3 '.split() ['1', '2', '3'] 

str. splitlines ( keepends = False ) ¶

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.

This method splits on the following line boundaries. In particular, the boundaries are a superset of universal newlines .

Carriage Return + Line Feed

Next Line (C1 Control Code)

Changed in version 3.2: \v and \f added to list of line boundaries.

>>> 'ab c\n\nde fg\rkl\r\n'.splitlines() ['ab c', '', 'de fg', 'kl'] >>> 'ab c\n\nde fg\rkl\r\n'.splitlines(keepends=True) ['ab c\n', '\n', 'de fg\r', 'kl\r\n'] 

Unlike split() when a delimiter string sep is given, this method returns an empty list for the empty string, and a terminal line break does not result in an extra line:

>>> "".splitlines() [] >>> "One line\n".splitlines() ['One line'] 

For comparison, split('\n') gives:

>>> ''.split('\n') [''] >>> 'Two lines\n'.split('\n') ['Two lines', ''] 

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.

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:

>>> ' spacious '.strip() 'spacious' >>> 'www.example.com'.strip('cmowz.') 'example' 

The outermost leading and trailing chars argument values are stripped from the string. Characters are removed from the leading end until reaching a string character that is not contained in the set of characters in chars. A similar action takes place on the trailing end. For example:

>>> comment_string = '#. Section 3.2.1 Issue #32 . ' >>> comment_string.strip('.#! ') 'Section 3.2.1 Issue #32' 

str. swapcase ( ) ¶

Return a copy of the string with uppercase characters converted to lowercase and vice versa. Note that it is not necessarily true that s.swapcase().swapcase() == s .

Return a titlecased version of the string where words start with an uppercase character and the remaining characters are lowercase.

>>> 'Hello world'.title() 'Hello World' 

The algorithm uses a simple language-independent definition of a word as groups of consecutive letters. The definition works in many contexts but it means that apostrophes in contractions and possessives form word boundaries, which may not be the desired result:

>>> "they're bill's friends from the UK".title() "They'Re Bill'S Friends From The Uk" 

The string.capwords() function does not have this problem, as it splits words on spaces only.

Alternatively, a workaround for apostrophes can be constructed using regular expressions:

>>> import re >>> def titlecase(s): . return re.sub(r"[A-Za-z]+('[A-Za-z]+)?", . lambda mo: mo.group(0).capitalize(), . s) . >>> titlecase("they're bill's friends.") "They're Bill's Friends." 

str. translate ( table ) ¶

Return a copy of the string in which each character has been mapped through the given translation table. The table must be an object that implements indexing via __getitem__() , typically a mapping or sequence . When indexed by a Unicode ordinal (an integer), the table object can do any of the following: return a Unicode ordinal or a string, to map the character to one or more other characters; return None , to delete the character from the return string; or raise a LookupError exception, to map the character to itself.

You can use str.maketrans() to create a translation map from character-to-character mappings in different formats.

See also the codecs module for a more flexible approach to custom character mappings.

Return a copy of the string with all the cased characters 4 converted to uppercase. Note that s.upper().isupper() might be False if s contains uncased characters or if the Unicode category of the resulting character(s) is not “Lu” (Letter, uppercase), but e.g. “Lt” (Letter, titlecase).

Return a copy of the string left filled with ASCII '0' digits to make a string of length width. A leading sign prefix ( '+' / '-' ) is handled by inserting the padding after the sign character rather than before. The original string is returned if width is less than or equal to len(s) .

>>> "42".zfill(5) '00042' >>> "-42".zfill(5) '-0042' 

printf -style String Formatting¶

The formatting operations described here exhibit a variety of quirks that lead to a number of common errors (such as failing to display tuples and dictionaries correctly). Using the newer formatted string literals , the str.format() interface, or template strings may help avoid these errors. Each of these alternatives provides their own trade-offs and benefits of simplicity, flexibility, and/or extensibility.

String objects have one unique built-in operation: the % operator (modulo). This is also known as the string formatting or interpolation operator. Given format % values (where format is a string), % conversion specifications in format are replaced with zero or more elements of values. The effect is similar to using the sprintf() in the C language.

If format requires a single argument, values may be a single non-tuple object. 5 Otherwise, values must be a tuple with exactly the number of items specified by the format string, or a single mapping object (for example, a dictionary).

A conversion specifier contains two or more characters and has the following components, which must occur in this order:

  1. The '%' character, which marks the start of the specifier.
  2. Mapping key (optional), consisting of a parenthesised sequence of characters (for example, (somename) ).
  3. Conversion flags (optional), which affect the result of some conversion types.
  4. Minimum field width (optional). If specified as an '*' (asterisk), the actual width is read from the next element of the tuple in values, and the object to convert comes after the minimum field width and optional precision.
  5. Precision (optional), given as a '.' (dot) followed by the precision. If specified as '*' (an asterisk), the actual precision is read from the next element of the tuple in values, and the value to convert comes after the precision.
  6. Length modifier (optional).
  7. Conversion type.

When the right argument is a dictionary (or other mapping type), then the formats in the string must include a parenthesised mapping key into that dictionary inserted immediately after the '%' character. The mapping key selects the value to be formatted from the mapping. For example:

>>> print('%(language)s has %(number)03d quote types.' % . 'language': "Python", "number": 2>) Python has 002 quote types. 

In this case no * specifiers may occur in a format (since they require a sequential parameter list).

The conversion flag characters are:

The value conversion will use the “alternate form” (where defined below).

The conversion will be zero padded for numeric values.

The converted value is left adjusted (overrides the '0' conversion if both are given).

(a space) A blank should be left before a positive number (or empty string) produced by a signed conversion.

A sign character ( '+' or '-' ) will precede the conversion (overrides a “space” flag).

A length modifier ( h , l , or L ) may be present, but is ignored as it is not necessary for Python – so e.g. %ld is identical to %d .

The conversion types are:

Signed integer decimal.

Signed integer decimal.

Signed octal value.

Obsolete type – it is identical to 'd' .

Signed hexadecimal (lowercase).

Signed hexadecimal (uppercase).

Floating point exponential format (lowercase).

Floating point exponential format (uppercase).

Floating point decimal format.

Floating point decimal format.

Floating point format. Uses lowercase exponential format if exponent is less than -4 or not less than precision, decimal format otherwise.

Floating point format. Uses uppercase exponential format if exponent is less than -4 or not less than precision, decimal format otherwise.

Single character (accepts integer or single character string).

String (converts any Python object using repr() ).

String (converts any Python object using str() ).

String (converts any Python object using ascii() ).

No argument is converted, results in a '%' character in the result.

  1. The alternate form causes a leading octal specifier ( '0o' ) to be inserted before the first digit.
  2. The alternate form causes a leading '0x' or '0X' (depending on whether the 'x' or 'X' format was used) to be inserted before the first digit.
  3. The alternate form causes the result to always contain a decimal point, even if no digits follow it. The precision determines the number of digits after the decimal point and defaults to 6.
  4. The alternate form causes the result to always contain a decimal point, and trailing zeroes are not removed as they would otherwise be. The precision determines the number of significant digits before and after the decimal point and defaults to 6.
  5. If precision is N , the output is truncated to N characters.
  6. See PEP 237.

Since Python strings have an explicit length, %s conversions do not assume that '\0' is the end of the string.

Changed in version 3.1: %f conversions for numbers whose absolute value is over 1e50 are no longer replaced by %g conversions.

Binary Sequence Types — bytes , bytearray , memoryview ¶

The core built-in types for manipulating binary data are bytes and bytearray . They are supported by memoryview which uses the buffer protocol to access the memory of other binary objects without needing to make a copy.

The array module supports efficient storage of basic data types like 32-bit integers and IEEE754 double-precision floating values.

Bytes Objects¶

Bytes objects are immutable sequences of single bytes. Since many major binary protocols are based on the ASCII text encoding, bytes objects offer several methods that are only valid when working with ASCII compatible data and are closely related to string objects in a variety of other ways.

Firstly, the syntax for bytes literals is largely the same as that for string literals, except that a b prefix is added:

  • Single quotes: b'still allows embedded "double" quotes'
  • Double quotes: b"still allows embedded 'single' quotes"
  • Triple quoted: b'''3 single quotes''' , b"""3 double quotes"""

Only ASCII characters are permitted in bytes literals (regardless of the declared source code encoding). Any binary values over 127 must be entered into bytes literals using the appropriate escape sequence.

As with string literals, bytes literals may also use a r prefix to disable processing of escape sequences. See String and Bytes literals for more about the various forms of bytes literal, including supported escape sequences.

In addition to the literal forms, bytes objects can be created in a number of other ways:

  • A zero-filled bytes object of a specified length: bytes(10)
  • From an iterable of integers: bytes(range(20))
  • Copying existing binary data via the buffer protocol: bytes(obj)

Also see the bytes built-in.

Since 2 hexadecimal digits correspond precisely to a single byte, hexadecimal numbers are a commonly used format for describing binary data. Accordingly, the bytes type has an additional class method to read data in that format:

classmethod fromhex ( string ) ¶

This bytes class method returns a bytes object, decoding the given string object. The string must contain two hexadecimal digits per byte, with ASCII whitespace being ignored.

>>> bytes.fromhex('2Ef0 F1f2 ') b'.\xf0\xf1\xf2' 

Changed in version 3.7: bytes.fromhex() now skips all ASCII whitespace in the string, not just spaces.

A reverse conversion function exists to transform a bytes object into its hexadecimal representation.

Return a string object containing two hexadecimal digits for each byte in the instance.

>>> b'\xf0\xf1\xf2'.hex() 'f0f1f2' 

If you want to make the hex string easier to read, you can specify a single character separator sep parameter to include in the output. By default, this separator will be included between each byte. A second optional bytes_per_sep parameter controls the spacing. Positive values calculate the separator position from the right, negative values from the left.

>>> value = b'\xf0\xf1\xf2' >>> value.hex('-') 'f0-f1-f2' >>> value.hex('_', 2) 'f0_f1f2' >>> b'UUDDLRLRAB'.hex(' ', -4) '55554444 4c524c52 4142' 

New in version 3.5.

Changed in version 3.8: bytes.hex() now supports optional sep and bytes_per_sep parameters to insert separators between bytes in the hex output.

Since bytes objects are sequences of integers (akin to a tuple), for a bytes object b, b[0] will be an integer, while b[0:1] will be a bytes object of length 1. (This contrasts with text strings, where both indexing and slicing will produce a string of length 1)

The representation of bytes objects uses the literal format ( b'. ' ) since it is often more useful than e.g. bytes([46, 46, 46]) . You can always convert a bytes object into a list of integers using list(b) .

Bytearray Objects¶

bytearray objects are a mutable counterpart to bytes objects.

class bytearray ( [ source [ , encoding [ , errors ] ] ] ) ¶

There is no dedicated literal syntax for bytearray objects, instead they are always created by calling the constructor:

  • Creating an empty instance: bytearray()
  • Creating a zero-filled instance with a given length: bytearray(10)
  • From an iterable of integers: bytearray(range(20))
  • Copying existing binary data via the buffer protocol: bytearray(b'Hi!')

As bytearray objects are mutable, they support the mutable sequence operations in addition to the common bytes and bytearray operations described in Bytes and Bytearray Operations .

Also see the bytearray built-in.

Since 2 hexadecimal digits correspond precisely to a single byte, hexadecimal numbers are a commonly used format for describing binary data. Accordingly, the bytearray type has an additional class method to read data in that format:

classmethod fromhex ( string ) ¶

This bytearray class method returns bytearray object, decoding the given string object. The string must contain two hexadecimal digits per byte, with ASCII whitespace being ignored.

>>> bytearray.fromhex('2Ef0 F1f2 ') bytearray(b'.\xf0\xf1\xf2') 

Changed in version 3.7: bytearray.fromhex() now skips all ASCII whitespace in the string, not just spaces.

A reverse conversion function exists to transform a bytearray object into its hexadecimal representation.

Return a string object containing two hexadecimal digits for each byte in the instance.

>>> bytearray(b'\xf0\xf1\xf2').hex() 'f0f1f2' 

New in version 3.5.

Changed in version 3.8: Similar to bytes.hex() , bytearray.hex() now supports optional sep and bytes_per_sep parameters to insert separators between bytes in the hex output.

Since bytearray objects are sequences of integers (akin to a list), for a bytearray object b, b[0] will be an integer, while b[0:1] will be a bytearray object of length 1. (This contrasts with text strings, where both indexing and slicing will produce a string of length 1)

The representation of bytearray objects uses the bytes literal format ( bytearray(b'. ') ) since it is often more useful than e.g. bytearray([46, 46, 46]) . You can always convert a bytearray object into a list of integers using list(b) .

Bytes and Bytearray Operations¶

Both bytes and bytearray objects support the common sequence operations. They interoperate not just with operands of the same type, but with any bytes-like object . Due to this flexibility, they can be freely mixed in operations without causing errors. However, the return type of the result may depend on the order of operands.

The methods on bytes and bytearray objects don’t accept strings as their arguments, just as the methods on strings don’t accept bytes as their arguments. For example, you have to write:

a = "abc" b = a.replace("a", "f") 
a = b"abc" b = a.replace(b"a", b"f") 

Some bytes and bytearray operations assume the use of ASCII compatible binary formats, and hence should be avoided when working with arbitrary binary data. These restrictions are covered below.

Using these ASCII based operations to manipulate binary data that is not stored in an ASCII based format may lead to data corruption.

The following methods on bytes and bytearray objects can be used with arbitrary binary data.

bytes. count ( sub [ , start [ , end ] ] ) ¶ bytearray. count ( sub [ , start [ , end ] ] ) ¶

Return the number of non-overlapping occurrences of subsequence sub in the range [start, end]. Optional arguments start and end are interpreted as in slice notation.

The subsequence to search for may be any bytes-like object or an integer in the range 0 to 255.

If sub is empty, returns the number of empty slices between characters which is the length of the bytes object plus one.

Changed in version 3.3: Also accept an integer in the range 0 to 255 as the subsequence.

bytes. removeprefix ( prefix , / ) ¶ bytearray. removeprefix ( prefix , / ) ¶

If the binary data starts with the prefix string, return bytes[len(prefix):] . Otherwise, return a copy of the original binary data:

>>> b'TestHook'.removeprefix(b'Test') b'Hook' >>> b'BaseTestCase'.removeprefix(b'Test') b'BaseTestCase' 

The bytearray version of this method does not operate in place - it always produces a new object, even if no changes were made.

New in version 3.9.

bytes. removesuffix ( suffix , / ) ¶ bytearray. removesuffix ( suffix , / ) ¶

If the binary data ends with the suffix string and that suffix is not empty, return bytes[:-len(suffix)] . Otherwise, return a copy of the original binary data:

>>> b'MiscTests'.removesuffix(b'Tests') b'Misc' >>> b'TmpDirMixin'.removesuffix(b'Tests') b'TmpDirMixin' 

The bytearray version of this method does not operate in place - it always produces a new object, even if no changes were made.

New in version 3.9.

bytes. decode ( encoding = 'utf-8' , errors = 'strict' ) ¶ bytearray. decode ( encoding = 'utf-8' , errors = 'strict' ) ¶

Return the bytes decoded to a str .

encoding defaults to 'utf-8' ; see Standard Encodings for possible values.

errors controls how decoding errors are handled. If 'strict' (the default), a UnicodeError exception is raised. Other possible values are 'ignore' , 'replace' , and any other name registered via codecs.register_error() . See Error Handlers for details.

For performance reasons, the value of errors is not checked for validity unless a decoding error actually occurs, Python Development Mode is enabled or a debug build is used.

Passing the encoding argument to str allows decoding any bytes-like object directly, without needing to make a temporary bytes or bytearray object.

Changed in version 3.1: Added support for keyword arguments.

Changed in version 3.9: The value of the errors argument is now checked in Python Development Mode and in debug mode .

bytes. endswith ( suffix [ , start [ , end ] ] ) ¶ bytearray. endswith ( suffix [ , start [ , end ] ] ) ¶

Return True if the binary data 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.

The suffix(es) to search for may be any bytes-like object .

bytes. find ( sub [ , start [ , end ] ] ) ¶ bytearray. find ( sub [ , start [ , end ] ] ) ¶

Return the lowest index in the data where the subsequence sub is found, such that sub is contained in the slice s[start:end] . Optional arguments start and end are interpreted as in slice notation. Return -1 if sub is not found.

The subsequence to search for may be any bytes-like object or an integer in the range 0 to 255.

The find() method should be used only if you need to know the position of sub. To check if sub is a substring or not, use the in operator:

>>> b'Py' in b'Python' True 

Changed in version 3.3: Also accept an integer in the range 0 to 255 as the subsequence.

bytes. index ( sub [ , start [ , end ] ] ) ¶ bytearray. index ( sub [ , start [ , end ] ] ) ¶

Like find() , but raise ValueError when the subsequence is not found.

The subsequence to search for may be any bytes-like object or an integer in the range 0 to 255.

Changed in version 3.3: Also accept an integer in the range 0 to 255 as the subsequence.

bytes. join ( iterable ) ¶ bytearray. join ( iterable ) ¶

Return a bytes or bytearray object which is the concatenation of the binary data sequences in iterable. A TypeError will be raised if there are any values in iterable that are not bytes-like objects , including str objects. The separator between elements is the contents of the bytes or bytearray object providing this method.

static bytes. maketrans ( from , to ) ¶ static bytearray. maketrans ( from , to ) ¶

This static method returns a translation table usable for bytes.translate() that will map each character in from into the character at the same position in to; from and to must both be bytes-like objects and have the same length.

New in version 3.1.

bytes. partition ( sep ) ¶ bytearray. partition ( sep ) ¶

Split the sequence at the first occurrence of sep, and return a 3-tuple containing the part before the separator, the separator itself or its bytearray copy, and the part after the separator. If the separator is not found, return a 3-tuple containing a copy of the original sequence, followed by two empty bytes or bytearray objects.

The separator to search for may be any bytes-like object .

bytes. replace ( old , new [ , count ] ) ¶ bytearray. replace ( old , new [ , count ] ) ¶

Return a copy of the sequence with all occurrences of subsequence old replaced by new. If the optional argument count is given, only the first count occurrences are replaced.

The subsequence to search for and its replacement may be any bytes-like object .

The bytearray version of this method does not operate in place - it always produces a new object, even if no changes were made.

bytes. rfind ( sub [ , start [ , end ] ] ) ¶ bytearray. rfind ( sub [ , start [ , end ] ] ) ¶

Return the highest index in the sequence where the subsequence 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.

The subsequence to search for may be any bytes-like object or an integer in the range 0 to 255.

Changed in version 3.3: Also accept an integer in the range 0 to 255 as the subsequence.

bytes. rindex ( sub [ , start [ , end ] ] ) ¶ bytearray. rindex ( sub [ , start [ , end ] ] ) ¶

Like rfind() but raises ValueError when the subsequence sub is not found.

The subsequence to search for may be any bytes-like object or an integer in the range 0 to 255.

Changed in version 3.3: Also accept an integer in the range 0 to 255 as the subsequence.

bytes. rpartition ( sep ) ¶ bytearray. rpartition ( sep ) ¶

Split the sequence at the last occurrence of sep, and return a 3-tuple containing the part before the separator, the separator itself or its bytearray copy, and the part after the separator. If the separator is not found, return a 3-tuple containing two empty bytes or bytearray objects, followed by a copy of the original sequence.

The separator to search for may be any bytes-like object .

bytes. startswith ( prefix [ , start [ , end ] ] ) ¶ bytearray. startswith ( prefix [ , start [ , end ] ] ) ¶

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

The prefix(es) to search for may be any bytes-like object .

bytes. translate ( table , / , delete = b'' ) ¶ bytearray. translate ( table , / , delete = b'' ) ¶

Return a copy of the bytes or bytearray object where all bytes occurring in the optional argument delete are removed, and the remaining bytes have been mapped through the given translation table, which must be a bytes object of length 256.

You can use the bytes.maketrans() method to create a translation table.

Set the table argument to None for translations that only delete characters:

>>> b'read this short text'.translate(None, b'aeiou') b'rd ths shrt txt' 

Changed in version 3.6: delete is now supported as a keyword argument.

The following methods on bytes and bytearray objects have default behaviours that assume the use of ASCII compatible binary formats, but can still be used with arbitrary binary data by passing appropriate arguments. Note that all of the bytearray methods in this section do not operate in place, and instead produce new objects.

bytes. center ( width [ , fillbyte ] ) ¶ bytearray. center ( width [ , fillbyte ] ) ¶

Return a copy of the object centered in a sequence of length width. Padding is done using the specified fillbyte (default is an ASCII space). For bytes objects, the original sequence is returned if width is less than or equal to len(s) .

The bytearray version of this method does not operate in place - it always produces a new object, even if no changes were made.

bytes. ljust ( width [ , fillbyte ] ) ¶ bytearray. ljust ( width [ , fillbyte ] ) ¶

Return a copy of the object left justified in a sequence of length width. Padding is done using the specified fillbyte (default is an ASCII space). For bytes objects, the original sequence is returned if width is less than or equal to len(s) .

The bytearray version of this method does not operate in place - it always produces a new object, even if no changes were made.

bytes. lstrip ( [ chars ] ) ¶ bytearray. lstrip ( [ chars ] ) ¶

Return a copy of the sequence with specified leading bytes removed. The chars argument is a binary sequence specifying the set of byte values to be removed - the name refers to the fact this method is usually used with ASCII characters. If omitted or None , the chars argument defaults to removing ASCII whitespace. The chars argument is not a prefix; rather, all combinations of its values are stripped:

>>> b' spacious '.lstrip() b'spacious ' >>> b'www.example.com'.lstrip(b'cmowz.') b'example.com' 

The binary sequence of byte values to remove may be any bytes-like object . See removeprefix() for a method that will remove a single prefix string rather than all of a set of characters. For example:

>>> b'Arthur: three!'.lstrip(b'Arthur: ') b'ee!' >>> b'Arthur: three!'.removeprefix(b'Arthur: ') b'three!' 

The bytearray version of this method does not operate in place - it always produces a new object, even if no changes were made.

bytes. rjust ( width [ , fillbyte ] ) ¶ bytearray. rjust ( width [ , fillbyte ] ) ¶

Return a copy of the object right justified in a sequence of length width. Padding is done using the specified fillbyte (default is an ASCII space). For bytes objects, the original sequence is returned if width is less than or equal to len(s) .

The bytearray version of this method does not operate in place - it always produces a new object, even if no changes were made.

bytes. rsplit ( sep = None , maxsplit = - 1 ) ¶ bytearray. rsplit ( sep = None , maxsplit = - 1 ) ¶

Split the binary sequence into subsequences of the same type, 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 subsequence consisting solely of ASCII whitespace is a separator. Except for splitting from the right, rsplit() behaves like split() which is described in detail below.

bytes. rstrip ( [ chars ] ) ¶ bytearray. rstrip ( [ chars ] ) ¶

Return a copy of the sequence with specified trailing bytes removed. The chars argument is a binary sequence specifying the set of byte values to be removed - the name refers to the fact this method is usually used with ASCII characters. If omitted or None , the chars argument defaults to removing ASCII whitespace. The chars argument is not a suffix; rather, all combinations of its values are stripped:

>>> b' spacious '.rstrip() b' spacious' >>> b'mississippi'.rstrip(b'ipz') b'mississ' 

The binary sequence of byte values to remove may be any bytes-like object . See removesuffix() for a method that will remove a single suffix string rather than all of a set of characters. For example:

>>> b'Monty Python'.rstrip(b' Python') b'M' >>> b'Monty Python'.removesuffix(b' Python') b'Monty' 

The bytearray version of this method does not operate in place - it always produces a new object, even if no changes were made.

bytes. split ( sep = None , maxsplit = - 1 ) ¶ bytearray. split ( sep = None , maxsplit = - 1 ) ¶

Split the binary sequence into subsequences of the same type, using sep as the delimiter string. If maxsplit is given and non-negative, at most maxsplit splits are done (thus, the list will have at most maxsplit+1 elements). If maxsplit is not specified or is -1 , 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 subsequences (for example, b'1,,2'.split(b',') returns [b'1', b'', b'2'] ). The sep argument may consist of a multibyte sequence (for example, b'1<>2<>3'.split(b'<>') returns [b'1', b'2', b'3'] ). Splitting an empty sequence with a specified separator returns [b''] or [bytearray(b'')] depending on the type of object being split. The sep argument may be any bytes-like object .

>>> b'1,2,3'.split(b',') [b'1', b'2', b'3'] >>> b'1,2,3'.split(b',', maxsplit=1) [b'1', b'2,3'] >>> b'1,2,,3,'.split(b',') [b'1', b'2', b'', b'3', b''] 

If sep is not specified or is None , a different splitting algorithm is applied: runs of consecutive ASCII whitespace are regarded as a single separator, and the result will contain no empty strings at the start or end if the sequence has leading or trailing whitespace. Consequently, splitting an empty sequence or a sequence consisting solely of ASCII whitespace without a specified separator returns [] .

>>> b'1 2 3'.split() [b'1', b'2', b'3'] >>> b'1 2 3'.split(maxsplit=1) [b'1', b'2 3'] >>> b' 1 2 3 '.split() [b'1', b'2', b'3'] 

bytes. strip ( [ chars ] ) ¶ bytearray. strip ( [ chars ] ) ¶

Return a copy of the sequence with specified leading and trailing bytes removed. The chars argument is a binary sequence specifying the set of byte values to be removed - the name refers to the fact this method is usually used with ASCII characters. If omitted or None , the chars argument defaults to removing ASCII whitespace. The chars argument is not a prefix or suffix; rather, all combinations of its values are stripped:

>>> b' spacious '.strip() b'spacious' >>> b'www.example.com'.strip(b'cmowz.') b'example' 

The binary sequence of byte values to remove may be any bytes-like object .

The bytearray version of this method does not operate in place - it always produces a new object, even if no changes were made.

The following methods on bytes and bytearray objects assume the use of ASCII compatible binary formats and should not be applied to arbitrary binary data. Note that all of the bytearray methods in this section do not operate in place, and instead produce new objects.

bytes. capitalize ( ) ¶ bytearray. capitalize ( ) ¶

Return a copy of the sequence with each byte interpreted as an ASCII character, and the first byte capitalized and the rest lowercased. Non-ASCII byte values are passed through unchanged.

The bytearray version of this method does not operate in place - it always produces a new object, even if no changes were made.

bytes. expandtabs ( tabsize = 8 ) ¶ bytearray. expandtabs ( tabsize = 8 ) ¶

Return a copy of the sequence where all ASCII tab characters are replaced by one or more ASCII spaces, depending on the current column and the given tab size. Tab positions occur every tabsize bytes (default is 8, giving tab positions at columns 0, 8, 16 and so on). To expand the sequence, the current column is set to zero and the sequence is examined byte by byte. If the byte is an ASCII tab character ( b'\t' ), one or more space characters are inserted in the result until the current column is equal to the next tab position. (The tab character itself is not copied.) If the current byte is an ASCII newline ( b'\n' ) or carriage return ( b'\r' ), it is copied and the current column is reset to zero. Any other byte value is copied unchanged and the current column is incremented by one regardless of how the byte value is represented when printed:

>>> b'01\t012\t0123\t01234'.expandtabs() b'01 012 0123 01234' >>> b'01\t012\t0123\t01234'.expandtabs(4) b'01 012 0123 01234' 

The bytearray version of this method does not operate in place - it always produces a new object, even if no changes were made.

bytes. isalnum ( ) ¶ bytearray. isalnum ( ) ¶

Return True if all bytes in the sequence are alphabetical ASCII characters or ASCII decimal digits and the sequence is not empty, False otherwise. Alphabetic ASCII characters are those byte values in the sequence b'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' . ASCII decimal digits are those byte values in the sequence b'0123456789' .

>>> b'ABCabc1'.isalnum() True >>> b'ABC abc1'.isalnum() False 

bytes. isalpha ( ) ¶ bytearray. isalpha ( ) ¶

Return True if all bytes in the sequence are alphabetic ASCII characters and the sequence is not empty, False otherwise. Alphabetic ASCII characters are those byte values in the sequence b'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' .

>>> b'ABCabc'.isalpha() True >>> b'ABCabc1'.isalpha() False 

bytes. isascii ( ) ¶ bytearray. isascii ( ) ¶

Return True if the sequence is empty or all bytes in the sequence are ASCII, False otherwise. ASCII bytes are in the range 0-0x7F.

New in version 3.7.

bytes. isdigit ( ) ¶ bytearray. isdigit ( ) ¶

Return True if all bytes in the sequence are ASCII decimal digits and the sequence is not empty, False otherwise. ASCII decimal digits are those byte values in the sequence b'0123456789' .

>>> b'1234'.isdigit() True >>> b'1.23'.isdigit() False 

bytes. islower ( ) ¶ bytearray. islower ( ) ¶

Return True if there is at least one lowercase ASCII character in the sequence and no uppercase ASCII characters, False otherwise.

>>> b'hello world'.islower() True >>> b'Hello world'.islower() False 

Lowercase ASCII characters are those byte values in the sequence b'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' . Uppercase ASCII characters are those byte values in the sequence b'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' .

bytes. isspace ( ) ¶ bytearray. isspace ( ) ¶

Return True if all bytes in the sequence are ASCII whitespace and the sequence is not empty, False otherwise. ASCII whitespace characters are those byte values in the sequence b' \t\n\r\x0b\f' (space, tab, newline, carriage return, vertical tab, form feed).

bytes. istitle ( ) ¶ bytearray. istitle ( ) ¶

Return True if the sequence is ASCII titlecase and the sequence is not empty, False otherwise. See bytes.title() for more details on the definition of “titlecase”.

>>> b'Hello World'.istitle() True >>> b'Hello world'.istitle() False 

bytes. isupper ( ) ¶ bytearray. isupper ( ) ¶

Return True if there is at least one uppercase alphabetic ASCII character in the sequence and no lowercase ASCII characters, False otherwise.

>>> b'HELLO WORLD'.isupper() True >>> b'Hello world'.isupper() False 

Lowercase ASCII characters are those byte values in the sequence b'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' . Uppercase ASCII characters are those byte values in the sequence b'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' .

bytes. lower ( ) ¶ bytearray. lower ( ) ¶

Return a copy of the sequence with all the uppercase ASCII characters converted to their corresponding lowercase counterpart.

>>> b'Hello World'.lower() b'hello world' 

Lowercase ASCII characters are those byte values in the sequence b'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' . Uppercase ASCII characters are those byte values in the sequence b'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' .

The bytearray version of this method does not operate in place - it always produces a new object, even if no changes were made.

bytes. splitlines ( keepends = False ) ¶ bytearray. splitlines ( keepends = False ) ¶

Return a list of the lines in the binary sequence, breaking at ASCII line boundaries. This method uses the universal newlines approach to splitting lines. Line breaks are not included in the resulting list unless keepends is given and true.

>>> b'ab c\n\nde fg\rkl\r\n'.splitlines() [b'ab c', b'', b'de fg', b'kl'] >>> b'ab c\n\nde fg\rkl\r\n'.splitlines(keepends=True) [b'ab c\n', b'\n', b'de fg\r', b'kl\r\n'] 

Unlike split() when a delimiter string sep is given, this method returns an empty list for the empty string, and a terminal line break does not result in an extra line:

>>> b"".split(b'\n'), b"Two lines\n".split(b'\n') ([b''], [b'Two lines', b'']) >>> b"".splitlines(), b"One line\n".splitlines() ([], [b'One line']) 

bytes. swapcase ( ) ¶ bytearray. swapcase ( ) ¶

Return a copy of the sequence with all the lowercase ASCII characters converted to their corresponding uppercase counterpart and vice-versa.

>>> b'Hello World'.swapcase() b'hELLO wORLD' 

Lowercase ASCII characters are those byte values in the sequence b'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' . Uppercase ASCII characters are those byte values in the sequence b'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' .

Unlike str.swapcase() , it is always the case that bin.swapcase().swapcase() == bin for the binary versions. Case conversions are symmetrical in ASCII, even though that is not generally true for arbitrary Unicode code points.

The bytearray version of this method does not operate in place - it always produces a new object, even if no changes were made.

bytes. title ( ) ¶ bytearray. title ( ) ¶

Return a titlecased version of the binary sequence where words start with an uppercase ASCII character and the remaining characters are lowercase. Uncased byte values are left unmodified.

>>> b'Hello world'.title() b'Hello World' 

Lowercase ASCII characters are those byte values in the sequence b'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' . Uppercase ASCII characters are those byte values in the sequence b'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' . All other byte values are uncased.

The algorithm uses a simple language-independent definition of a word as groups of consecutive letters. The definition works in many contexts but it means that apostrophes in contractions and possessives form word boundaries, which may not be the desired result:

>>> b"they're bill's friends from the UK".title() b"They'Re Bill'S Friends From The Uk" 

A workaround for apostrophes can be constructed using regular expressions:

>>> import re >>> def titlecase(s): . return re.sub(rb"[A-Za-z]+('[A-Za-z]+)?", . lambda mo: mo.group(0)[0:1].upper() + . mo.group(0)[1:].lower(), . s) . >>> titlecase(b"they're bill's friends.") b"They're Bill's Friends." 

The bytearray version of this method does not operate in place - it always produces a new object, even if no changes were made.

bytes. upper ( ) ¶ bytearray. upper ( ) ¶

Return a copy of the sequence with all the lowercase ASCII characters converted to their corresponding uppercase counterpart.

>>> b'Hello World'.upper() b'HELLO WORLD' 

Lowercase ASCII characters are those byte values in the sequence b'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' . Uppercase ASCII characters are those byte values in the sequence b'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' .

The bytearray version of this method does not operate in place - it always produces a new object, even if no changes were made.

bytes. zfill ( width ) ¶ bytearray. zfill ( width ) ¶

Return a copy of the sequence left filled with ASCII b'0' digits to make a sequence of length width. A leading sign prefix ( b'+' / b'-' ) is handled by inserting the padding after the sign character rather than before. For bytes objects, the original sequence is returned if width is less than or equal to len(seq) .

>>> b"42".zfill(5) b'00042' >>> b"-42".zfill(5) b'-0042' 

The bytearray version of this method does not operate in place - it always produces a new object, even if no changes were made.

printf -style Bytes Formatting¶

The formatting operations described here exhibit a variety of quirks that lead to a number of common errors (such as failing to display tuples and dictionaries correctly). If the value being printed may be a tuple or dictionary, wrap it in a tuple.

Bytes objects ( bytes / bytearray ) have one unique built-in operation: the % operator (modulo). This is also known as the bytes formatting or interpolation operator. Given format % values (where format is a bytes object), % conversion specifications in format are replaced with zero or more elements of values. The effect is similar to using the sprintf() in the C language.

If format requires a single argument, values may be a single non-tuple object. 5 Otherwise, values must be a tuple with exactly the number of items specified by the format bytes object, or a single mapping object (for example, a dictionary).

A conversion specifier contains two or more characters and has the following components, which must occur in this order:

  1. The '%' character, which marks the start of the specifier.
  2. Mapping key (optional), consisting of a parenthesised sequence of characters (for example, (somename) ).
  3. Conversion flags (optional), which affect the result of some conversion types.
  4. Minimum field width (optional). If specified as an '*' (asterisk), the actual width is read from the next element of the tuple in values, and the object to convert comes after the minimum field width and optional precision.
  5. Precision (optional), given as a '.' (dot) followed by the precision. If specified as '*' (an asterisk), the actual precision is read from the next element of the tuple in values, and the value to convert comes after the precision.
  6. Length modifier (optional).
  7. Conversion type.

When the right argument is a dictionary (or other mapping type), then the formats in the bytes object must include a parenthesised mapping key into that dictionary inserted immediately after the '%' character. The mapping key selects the value to be formatted from the mapping. For example:

>>> print(b'%(language)s has %(number)03d quote types.' % . b'language': b"Python", b"number": 2>) b'Python has 002 quote types.' 

In this case no * specifiers may occur in a format (since they require a sequential parameter list).

The conversion flag characters are:

The value conversion will use the “alternate form” (where defined below).

The conversion will be zero padded for numeric values.

The converted value is left adjusted (overrides the '0' conversion if both are given).

(a space) A blank should be left before a positive number (or empty string) produced by a signed conversion.

A sign character ( '+' or '-' ) will precede the conversion (overrides a “space” flag).

A length modifier ( h , l , or L ) may be present, but is ignored as it is not necessary for Python – so e.g. %ld is identical to %d .

The conversion types are:

Signed integer decimal.

Signed integer decimal.

Signed octal value.

Obsolete type – it is identical to 'd' .

Signed hexadecimal (lowercase).

Signed hexadecimal (uppercase).

Floating point exponential format (lowercase).

Floating point exponential format (uppercase).

Floating point decimal format.

Floating point decimal format.

Floating point format. Uses lowercase exponential format if exponent is less than -4 or not less than precision, decimal format otherwise.

Floating point format. Uses uppercase exponential format if exponent is less than -4 or not less than precision, decimal format otherwise.

Single byte (accepts integer or single byte objects).

Bytes (any object that follows the buffer protocol or has __bytes__() ).

's' is an alias for 'b' and should only be used for Python2/3 code bases.

Bytes (converts any Python object using repr(obj).encode('ascii', 'backslashreplace') ).

'r' is an alias for 'a' and should only be used for Python2/3 code bases.

No argument is converted, results in a '%' character in the result.

  1. The alternate form causes a leading octal specifier ( '0o' ) to be inserted before the first digit.
  2. The alternate form causes a leading '0x' or '0X' (depending on whether the 'x' or 'X' format was used) to be inserted before the first digit.
  3. The alternate form causes the result to always contain a decimal point, even if no digits follow it. The precision determines the number of digits after the decimal point and defaults to 6.
  4. The alternate form causes the result to always contain a decimal point, and trailing zeroes are not removed as they would otherwise be. The precision determines the number of significant digits before and after the decimal point and defaults to 6.
  5. If precision is N , the output is truncated to N characters.
  6. b'%s' is deprecated, but will not be removed during the 3.x series.
  7. b'%r' is deprecated, but will not be removed during the 3.x series.
  8. See PEP 237.

The bytearray version of this method does not operate in place - it always produces a new object, even if no changes were made.

PEP 461 - Adding % formatting to bytes and bytearray

New in version 3.5.

Memory Views¶

memoryview objects allow Python code to access the internal data of an object that supports the buffer protocol without copying.

Create a memoryview that references object. object must support the buffer protocol. Built-in objects that support the buffer protocol include bytes and bytearray .

A memoryview has the notion of an element, which is the atomic memory unit handled by the originating object. For many simple types such as bytes and bytearray , an element is a single byte, but other types such as array.array may have bigger elements.

len(view) is equal to the length of tolist , which is the nested list representation of the view. If view.ndim = 1 , this is equal to the number of elements in the view.

Changed in version 3.12: If view.ndim == 0 , len(view) now raises TypeError instead of returning 1.

The itemsize attribute will give you the number of bytes in a single element.

A memoryview supports slicing and indexing to expose its data. One-dimensional slicing will result in a subview:

>>> v = memoryview(b'abcefg') >>> v[1] 98 >>> v[-1] 103 >>> v[1:4] >>> bytes(v[1:4]) b'bce' 

If format is one of the native format specifiers from the struct module, indexing with an integer or a tuple of integers is also supported and returns a single element with the correct type. One-dimensional memoryviews can be indexed with an integer or a one-integer tuple. Multi-dimensional memoryviews can be indexed with tuples of exactly ndim integers where ndim is the number of dimensions. Zero-dimensional memoryviews can be indexed with the empty tuple.

Here is an example with a non-byte format:

>>> import array >>> a = array.array('l', [-11111111, 22222222, -33333333, 44444444]) >>> m = memoryview(a) >>> m[0] -11111111 >>> m[-1] 44444444 >>> m[::2].tolist() [-11111111, -33333333] 

If the underlying object is writable, the memoryview supports one-dimensional slice assignment. Resizing is not allowed:

>>> data = bytearray(b'abcefg') >>> v = memoryview(data) >>> v.readonly False >>> v[0] = ord(b'z') >>> data bytearray(b'zbcefg') >>> v[1:4] = b'123' >>> data bytearray(b'z123fg') >>> v[2:3] = b'spam' Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ValueError: memoryview assignment: lvalue and rvalue have different structures >>> v[2:6] = b'spam' >>> data bytearray(b'z1spam') 

One-dimensional memoryviews of hashable (read-only) types with formats ‘B’, ‘b’ or ‘c’ are also hashable. The hash is defined as hash(m) == hash(m.tobytes()) :

>>> v = memoryview(b'abcefg') >>> hash(v) == hash(b'abcefg') True >>> hash(v[2:4]) == hash(b'ce') True >>> hash(v[::-2]) == hash(b'abcefg'[::-2]) True 

Changed in version 3.3: One-dimensional memoryviews can now be sliced. One-dimensional memoryviews with formats ‘B’, ‘b’ or ‘c’ are now hashable .

Changed in version 3.4: memoryview is now registered automatically with collections.abc.Sequence

Changed in version 3.5: memoryviews can now be indexed with tuple of integers.

memoryview has several methods:

A memoryview and a PEP 3118 exporter are equal if their shapes are equivalent and if all corresponding values are equal when the operands’ respective format codes are interpreted using struct syntax.

For the subset of struct format strings currently supported by tolist() , v and w are equal if v.tolist() == w.tolist() :

>>> import array >>> a = array.array('I', [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]) >>> b = array.array('d', [1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0]) >>> c = array.array('b', [5, 3, 1]) >>> x = memoryview(a) >>> y = memoryview(b) >>> x == a == y == b True >>> x.tolist() == a.tolist() == y.tolist() == b.tolist() True >>> z = y[::-2] >>> z == c True >>> z.tolist() == c.tolist() True 

If either format string is not supported by the struct module, then the objects will always compare as unequal (even if the format strings and buffer contents are identical):

>>> from ctypes import BigEndianStructure, c_long >>> class BEPoint(BigEndianStructure): . _fields_ = [("x", c_long), ("y", c_long)] . >>> point = BEPoint(100, 200) >>> a = memoryview(point) >>> b = memoryview(point) >>> a == point False >>> a == b False 

Note that, as with floating point numbers, v is w does not imply v == w for memoryview objects.

Changed in version 3.3: Previous versions compared the raw memory disregarding the item format and the logical array structure.

tobytes ( order = 'C' ) ¶

Return the data in the buffer as a bytestring. This is equivalent to calling the bytes constructor on the memoryview.

>>> m = memoryview(b"abc") >>> m.tobytes() b'abc' >>> bytes(m) b'abc' 

For non-contiguous arrays the result is equal to the flattened list representation with all elements converted to bytes. tobytes() supports all format strings, including those that are not in struct module syntax.

New in version 3.8: order can be . When order is ‘C’ or ‘F’, the data of the original array is converted to C or Fortran order. For contiguous views, ‘A’ returns an exact copy of the physical memory. In particular, in-memory Fortran order is preserved. For non-contiguous views, the data is converted to C first. order=None is the same as order=’C’.

hex ( [ sep [ , bytes_per_sep ] ] ) ¶

Return a string object containing two hexadecimal digits for each byte in the buffer.

>>> m = memoryview(b"abc") >>> m.hex() '616263' 

New in version 3.5.

Changed in version 3.8: Similar to bytes.hex() , memoryview.hex() now supports optional sep and bytes_per_sep parameters to insert separators between bytes in the hex output.

Return the data in the buffer as a list of elements.

>>> memoryview(b'abc').tolist() [97, 98, 99] >>> import array >>> a = array.array('d', [1.1, 2.2, 3.3]) >>> m = memoryview(a) >>> m.tolist() [1.1, 2.2, 3.3] 

Changed in version 3.3: tolist() now supports all single character native formats in struct module syntax as well as multi-dimensional representations.

toreadonly ( ) ¶

Return a readonly version of the memoryview object. The original memoryview object is unchanged.

>>> m = memoryview(bytearray(b'abc')) >>> mm = m.toreadonly() >>> mm.tolist() [97, 98, 99] >>> mm[0] = 42 Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in TypeError: cannot modify read-only memory >>> m[0] = 43 >>> mm.tolist() [43, 98, 99] 

New in version 3.8.

Release the underlying buffer exposed by the memoryview object. Many objects take special actions when a view is held on them (for example, a bytearray would temporarily forbid resizing); therefore, calling release() is handy to remove these restrictions (and free any dangling resources) as soon as possible.

After this method has been called, any further operation on the view raises a ValueError (except release() itself which can be called multiple times):

>>> m = memoryview(b'abc') >>> m.release() >>> m[0] Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ValueError: operation forbidden on released memoryview object 

The context management protocol can be used for a similar effect, using the with statement:

>>> with memoryview(b'abc') as m: . m[0] . 97 >>> m[0] Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ValueError: operation forbidden on released memoryview object 

New in version 3.2.

cast ( format [ , shape ] ) ¶

Cast a memoryview to a new format or shape. shape defaults to [byte_length//new_itemsize] , which means that the result view will be one-dimensional. The return value is a new memoryview, but the buffer itself is not copied. Supported casts are 1D -> C- contiguous and C-contiguous -> 1D.

The destination format is restricted to a single element native format in struct syntax. One of the formats must be a byte format (‘B’, ‘b’ or ‘c’). The byte length of the result must be the same as the original length. Note that all byte lengths may depend on the operating system.

Cast 1D/long to 1D/unsigned bytes:

>>> import array >>> a = array.array('l', [1,2,3]) >>> x = memoryview(a) >>> x.format 'l' >>> x.itemsize 8 >>> len(x) 3 >>> x.nbytes 24 >>> y = x.cast('B') >>> y.format 'B' >>> y.itemsize 1 >>> len(y) 24 >>> y.nbytes 24 

Cast 1D/unsigned bytes to 1D/char:

>>> b = bytearray(b'zyz') >>> x = memoryview(b) >>> x[0] = b'a' Traceback (most recent call last): . TypeError: memoryview: invalid type for format 'B' >>> y = x.cast('c') >>> y[0] = b'a' >>> b bytearray(b'ayz') 

Cast 1D/bytes to 3D/ints to 1D/signed char:

>>> import struct >>> buf = struct.pack("i"*12, *list(range(12))) >>> x = memoryview(buf) >>> y = x.cast('i', shape=[2,2,3]) >>> y.tolist() [[[0, 1, 2], [3, 4, 5]], [[6, 7, 8], [9, 10, 11]]] >>> y.format 'i' >>> y.itemsize 4 >>> len(y) 2 >>> y.nbytes 48 >>> z = y.cast('b') >>> z.format 'b' >>> z.itemsize 1 >>> len(z) 48 >>> z.nbytes 48 

Cast 1D/unsigned long to 2D/unsigned long:

>>> buf = struct.pack("L"*6, *list(range(6))) >>> x = memoryview(buf) >>> y = x.cast('L', shape=[2,3]) >>> len(y) 2 >>> y.nbytes 48 >>> y.tolist() [[0, 1, 2], [3, 4, 5]] 

New in version 3.3.

Changed in version 3.5: The source format is no longer restricted when casting to a byte view.

There are also several readonly attributes available:

The underlying object of the memoryview:

>>> b = bytearray(b'xyz') >>> m = memoryview(b) >>> m.obj is b True 

New in version 3.3.

nbytes == product(shape) * itemsize == len(m.tobytes()) . This is the amount of space in bytes that the array would use in a contiguous representation. It is not necessarily equal to len(m) :

>>> import array >>> a = array.array('i', [1,2,3,4,5]) >>> m = memoryview(a) >>> len(m) 5 >>> m.nbytes 20 >>> y = m[::2] >>> len(y) 3 >>> y.nbytes 12 >>> len(y.tobytes()) 12 
>>> import struct >>> buf = struct.pack("d"*12, *[1.5*x for x in range(12)]) >>> x = memoryview(buf) >>> y = x.cast('d', shape=[3,4]) >>> y.tolist() [[0.0, 1.5, 3.0, 4.5], [6.0, 7.5, 9.0, 10.5], [12.0, 13.5, 15.0, 16.5]] >>> len(y) 3 >>> y.nbytes 96 

New in version 3.3.

A bool indicating whether the memory is read only.

A string containing the format (in struct module style) for each element in the view. A memoryview can be created from exporters with arbitrary format strings, but some methods (e.g. tolist() ) are restricted to native single element formats.

Changed in version 3.3: format 'B' is now handled according to the struct module syntax. This means that memoryview(b'abc')[0] == b'abc'[0] == 97 .

The size in bytes of each element of the memoryview:

>>> import array, struct >>> m = memoryview(array.array('H', [32000, 32001, 32002])) >>> m.itemsize 2 >>> m[0] 32000 >>> struct.calcsize('H') == m.itemsize True 

An integer indicating how many dimensions of a multi-dimensional array the memory represents.

A tuple of integers the length of ndim giving the shape of the memory as an N-dimensional array.

Changed in version 3.3: An empty tuple instead of None when ndim = 0.

A tuple of integers the length of ndim giving the size in bytes to access each element for each dimension of the array.

Changed in version 3.3: An empty tuple instead of None when ndim = 0.

suboffsets ¶

Used internally for PIL-style arrays. The value is informational only.

A bool indicating whether the memory is C- contiguous .

New in version 3.3.

f_contiguous ¶

A bool indicating whether the memory is Fortran contiguous .

New in version 3.3.

contiguous ¶

A bool indicating whether the memory is contiguous .

New in version 3.3.

Set Types — set , frozenset ¶

A set object is an unordered collection of distinct hashable objects. Common uses include membership testing, removing duplicates from a sequence, and computing mathematical operations such as intersection, union, difference, and symmetric difference. (For other containers see the built-in dict , list , and tuple classes, and the collections module.)

Like other collections, sets support x in set , len(set) , and for x in set . Being an unordered collection, sets do not record element position or order of insertion. Accordingly, sets do not support indexing, slicing, or other sequence-like behavior.

There are currently two built-in set types, set and frozenset . The set type is mutable — the contents can be changed using methods like add() and remove() . Since it is mutable, it has no hash value and cannot be used as either a dictionary key or as an element of another set. The frozenset type is immutable and hashable — its contents cannot be altered after it is created; it can therefore be used as a dictionary key or as an element of another set.

Non-empty sets (not frozensets) can be created by placing a comma-separated list of elements within braces, for example: , in addition to the set constructor.

The constructors for both classes work the same:

class set ( [ iterable ] ) ¶ class frozenset ( [ iterable ] ) ¶

Return a new set or frozenset object whose elements are taken from iterable. The elements of a set must be hashable . To represent sets of sets, the inner sets must be frozenset objects. If iterable is not specified, a new empty set is returned.

Sets can be created by several means:

  • Use a comma-separated list of elements within braces:
  • Use a set comprehension:
  • Use the type constructor: set() , set('foobar') , set(['a', 'b', 'foo'])

Instances of set and frozenset provide the following operations:

Return the number of elements in set s (cardinality of s).

Test x for membership in s.

Test x for non-membership in s.

Return True if the set has no elements in common with other. Sets are disjoint if and only if their intersection is the empty set.

issubset ( other ) ¶ set

Test whether every element in the set is in other.

Test whether the set is a proper subset of other, that is, set

issuperset ( other ) ¶ set >= other

Test whether every element in other is in the set.

Test whether the set is a proper superset of other, that is, set >= other and set != other .

union ( * others ) ¶ set | other | .

Return a new set with elements from the set and all others.

intersection ( * others ) ¶ set & other & .

Return a new set with elements common to the set and all others.

difference ( * others ) ¶ set - other - .

Return a new set with elements in the set that are not in the others.

symmetric_difference ( other ) ¶ set ^ other

Return a new set with elements in either the set or other but not both.

Return a shallow copy of the set.

Note, the non-operator versions of union() , intersection() , difference() , symmetric_difference() , issubset() , and issuperset() methods will accept any iterable as an argument. In contrast, their operator based counterparts require their arguments to be sets. This precludes error-prone constructions like set('abc') & 'cbs' in favor of the more readable set('abc').intersection('cbs') .

Both set and frozenset support set to set comparisons. Two sets are equal if and only if every element of each set is contained in the other (each is a subset of the other). A set is less than another set if and only if the first set is a proper subset of the second set (is a subset, but is not equal). A set is greater than another set if and only if the first set is a proper superset of the second set (is a superset, but is not equal).

Instances of set are compared to instances of frozenset based on their members. For example, set('abc') == frozenset('abc') returns True and so does set('abc') in set([frozenset('abc')]) .

The subset and equality comparisons do not generalize to a total ordering function. For example, any two nonempty disjoint sets are not equal and are not subsets of each other, so all of the following return False : ab .

Since sets only define partial ordering (subset relationships), the output of the list.sort() method is undefined for lists of sets.

Set elements, like dictionary keys, must be hashable .

Binary operations that mix set instances with frozenset return the type of the first operand. For example: frozenset('ab') | set('bc') returns an instance of frozenset .

The following table lists operations available for set that do not apply to immutable instances of frozenset :

update ( * others ) ¶ set |= other | .

Update the set, adding elements from all others.

intersection_update ( * others ) ¶ set &= other & .

Update the set, keeping only elements found in it and all others.

difference_update ( * others ) ¶ set -= other | .

Update the set, removing elements found in others.

symmetric_difference_update ( other ) ¶ set ^= other

Update the set, keeping only elements found in either set, but not in both.

Add element elem to the set.

Remove element elem from the set. Raises KeyError if elem is not contained in the set.

Remove element elem from the set if it is present.

Remove and return an arbitrary element from the set. Raises KeyError if the set is empty.

Remove all elements from the set.

Note, the non-operator versions of the update() , intersection_update() , difference_update() , and symmetric_difference_update() methods will accept any iterable as an argument.

Note, the elem argument to the __contains__() , remove() , and discard() methods may be a set. To support searching for an equivalent frozenset, a temporary one is created from elem.

Mapping Types — dict ¶

A mapping object maps hashable values to arbitrary objects. Mappings are mutable objects. There is currently only one standard mapping type, the dictionary. (For other containers see the built-in list , set , and tuple classes, and the collections module.)

A dictionary’s keys are almost arbitrary values. Values that are not hashable , that is, values containing lists, dictionaries or other mutable types (that are compared by value rather than by object identity) may not be used as keys. Values that compare equal (such as 1 , 1.0 , and True ) can be used interchangeably to index the same dictionary entry.

class dict ( ** kwargs ) ¶ class dict ( mapping , ** kwargs ) class dict ( iterable , ** kwargs )

Return a new dictionary initialized from an optional positional argument and a possibly empty set of keyword arguments.

Dictionaries can be created by several means:

  • Use a comma-separated list of key: value pairs within braces: or
  • Use a dict comprehension: <> ,
  • Use the type constructor: dict() , dict([('foo', 100), ('bar', 200)]) , dict(foo=100, bar=200)

If no positional argument is given, an empty dictionary is created. If a positional argument is given and it is a mapping object, a dictionary is created with the same key-value pairs as the mapping object. Otherwise, the positional argument must be an iterable object. Each item in the iterable must itself be an iterable with exactly two objects. The first object of each item becomes a key in the new dictionary, and the second object the corresponding value. If a key occurs more than once, the last value for that key becomes the corresponding value in the new dictionary.

If keyword arguments are given, the keyword arguments and their values are added to the dictionary created from the positional argument. If a key being added is already present, the value from the keyword argument replaces the value from the positional argument.

To illustrate, the following examples all return a dictionary equal to :

>>> a = dict(one=1, two=2, three=3) >>> b = 'one': 1, 'two': 2, 'three': 3> >>> c = dict(zip(['one', 'two', 'three'], [1, 2, 3])) >>> d = dict([('two', 2), ('one', 1), ('three', 3)]) >>> e = dict('three': 3, 'one': 1, 'two': 2>) >>> f = dict('one': 1, 'three': 3>, two=2) >>> a == b == c == d == e == f True 

Providing keyword arguments as in the first example only works for keys that are valid Python identifiers. Otherwise, any valid keys can be used.

These are the operations that dictionaries support (and therefore, custom mapping types should support too):

Return a list of all the keys used in the dictionary d.

Return the number of items in the dictionary d.

Return the item of d with key key. Raises a KeyError if key is not in the map.

If a subclass of dict defines a method __missing__() and key is not present, the d[key] operation calls that method with the key key as argument. The d[key] operation then returns or raises whatever is returned or raised by the __missing__(key) call. No other operations or methods invoke __missing__() . If __missing__() is not defined, KeyError is raised. __missing__() must be a method; it cannot be an instance variable:

>>> class Counter(dict): . def __missing__(self, key): . return 0 . >>> c = Counter() >>> c['red'] 0 >>> c['red'] += 1 >>> c['red'] 1 

The example above shows part of the implementation of collections.Counter . A different __missing__ method is used by collections.defaultdict .

Set d[key] to value.

Remove d[key] from d. Raises a KeyError if key is not in the map.

Return True if d has a key key, else False .

Equivalent to not key in d .

Return an iterator over the keys of the dictionary. This is a shortcut for iter(d.keys()) .

Remove all items from the dictionary.

Return a shallow copy of the dictionary.

classmethod fromkeys ( iterable [ , value ] ) ¶

Create a new dictionary with keys from iterable and values set to value.

fromkeys() is a class method that returns a new dictionary. value defaults to None . All of the values refer to just a single instance, so it generally doesn’t make sense for value to be a mutable object such as an empty list. To get distinct values, use a dict comprehension instead.

Return the value for key if key is in the dictionary, else default. If default is not given, it defaults to None , so that this method never raises a KeyError .

Return a new view of the dictionary’s items ( (key, value) pairs). See the documentation of view objects .

Return a new view of the dictionary’s keys. See the documentation of view objects .

If key is in the dictionary, remove it and return its value, else return default. If default is not given and key is not in the dictionary, a KeyError is raised.

Remove and return a (key, value) pair from the dictionary. Pairs are returned in LIFO order.

popitem() is useful to destructively iterate over a dictionary, as often used in set algorithms. If the dictionary is empty, calling popitem() raises a KeyError .

Changed in version 3.7: LIFO order is now guaranteed. In prior versions, popitem() would return an arbitrary key/value pair.

Return a reverse iterator over the keys of the dictionary. This is a shortcut for reversed(d.keys()) .

New in version 3.8.

setdefault ( key [ , default ] ) ¶

If key is in the dictionary, return its value. If not, insert key with a value of default and return default. default defaults to None .

Update the dictionary with the key/value pairs from other, overwriting existing keys. Return None .

update() accepts either another dictionary object or an iterable of key/value pairs (as tuples or other iterables of length two). If keyword arguments are specified, the dictionary is then updated with those key/value pairs: d.update(red=1, blue=2) .

Return a new view of the dictionary’s values. See the documentation of view objects .

An equality comparison between one dict.values() view and another will always return False . This also applies when comparing dict.values() to itself:

>>> d = 'a': 1> >>> d.values() == d.values() False 

Create a new dictionary with the merged keys and values of d and other, which must both be dictionaries. The values of other take priority when d and other share keys.

New in version 3.9.

Update the dictionary d with keys and values from other, which may be either a mapping or an iterable of key/value pairs. The values of other take priority when d and other share keys.

New in version 3.9.

Dictionaries compare equal if and only if they have the same (key, value) pairs (regardless of ordering). Order comparisons (‘=’, ‘>’) raise TypeError .

Dictionaries preserve insertion order. Note that updating a key does not affect the order. Keys added after deletion are inserted at the end.

>>> d = "one": 1, "two": 2, "three": 3, "four": 4> >>> d >>> list(d) ['one', 'two', 'three', 'four'] >>> list(d.values()) [1, 2, 3, 4] >>> d["one"] = 42 >>> d >>> del d["two"] >>> d["two"] = None >>> d

Changed in version 3.7: Dictionary order is guaranteed to be insertion order. This behavior was an implementation detail of CPython from 3.6.

Dictionaries and dictionary views are reversible.

>>> d = "one": 1, "two": 2, "three": 3, "four": 4> >>> d >>> list(reversed(d)) ['four', 'three', 'two', 'one'] >>> list(reversed(d.values())) [4, 3, 2, 1] >>> list(reversed(d.items())) [('four', 4), ('three', 3), ('two', 2), ('one', 1)] 

Changed in version 3.8: Dictionaries are now reversible.

types.MappingProxyType can be used to create a read-only view of a dict .

Dictionary view objects¶

The objects returned by dict.keys() , dict.values() and dict.items() are view objects. They provide a dynamic view on the dictionary’s entries, which means that when the dictionary changes, the view reflects these changes.

Dictionary views can be iterated over to yield their respective data, and support membership tests:

Return the number of entries in the dictionary.

Return an iterator over the keys, values or items (represented as tuples of (key, value) ) in the dictionary.

Keys and values are iterated over in insertion order. This allows the creation of (value, key) pairs using zip() : pairs = zip(d.values(), d.keys()) . Another way to create the same list is pairs = [(v, k) for (k, v) in d.items()] .

Iterating views while adding or deleting entries in the dictionary may raise a RuntimeError or fail to iterate over all entries.

Changed in version 3.7: Dictionary order is guaranteed to be insertion order.

x in dictview

Return True if x is in the underlying dictionary’s keys, values or items (in the latter case, x should be a (key, value) tuple).

Return a reverse iterator over the keys, values or items of the dictionary. The view will be iterated in reverse order of the insertion.

Changed in version 3.8: Dictionary views are now reversible.

dictview.mapping

Return a types.MappingProxyType that wraps the original dictionary to which the view refers.

New in version 3.10.

Keys views are set-like since their entries are unique and hashable . If all values are hashable, so that (key, value) pairs are unique and hashable, then the items view is also set-like. (Values views are not treated as set-like since the entries are generally not unique.) For set-like views, all of the operations defined for the abstract base class collections.abc.Set are available (for example, == , < , or ^ ). While using set operators, set-like views accept any iterable as the other operand, unlike sets which only accept sets as the input.

An example of dictionary view usage:

>>> dishes = 'eggs': 2, 'sausage': 1, 'bacon': 1, 'spam': 500> >>> keys = dishes.keys() >>> values = dishes.values() >>> # iteration >>> n = 0 >>> for val in values: . n += val . >>> print(n) 504 >>> # keys and values are iterated over in the same order (insertion order) >>> list(keys) ['eggs', 'sausage', 'bacon', 'spam'] >>> list(values) [2, 1, 1, 500] >>> # view objects are dynamic and reflect dict changes >>> del dishes['eggs'] >>> del dishes['sausage'] >>> list(keys) ['bacon', 'spam'] >>> # set operations >>> keys & 'eggs', 'bacon', 'salad'> >>> keys ^ 'sausage', 'juice'> == 'juice', 'sausage', 'bacon', 'spam'> True >>> keys | ['juice', 'juice', 'juice'] == 'bacon', 'spam', 'juice'> True >>> # get back a read-only proxy for the original dictionary >>> values.mapping mappingproxy() >>> values.mapping['spam'] 500 

Context Manager Types¶

Python’s with statement supports the concept of a runtime context defined by a context manager. This is implemented using a pair of methods that allow user-defined classes to define a runtime context that is entered before the statement body is executed and exited when the statement ends:

Enter the runtime context and return either this object or another object related to the runtime context. The value returned by this method is bound to the identifier in the as clause of with statements using this context manager.

An example of a context manager that returns itself is a file object . File objects return themselves from __enter__() to allow open() to be used as the context expression in a with statement.

An example of a context manager that returns a related object is the one returned by decimal.localcontext() . These managers set the active decimal context to a copy of the original decimal context and then return the copy. This allows changes to be made to the current decimal context in the body of the with statement without affecting code outside the with statement.

contextmanager. __exit__ ( exc_type , exc_val , exc_tb ) ¶

Exit the runtime context and return a Boolean flag indicating if any exception that occurred should be suppressed. If an exception occurred while executing the body of the with statement, the arguments contain the exception type, value and traceback information. Otherwise, all three arguments are None .

Returning a true value from this method will cause the with statement to suppress the exception and continue execution with the statement immediately following the with statement. Otherwise the exception continues propagating after this method has finished executing. Exceptions that occur during execution of this method will replace any exception that occurred in the body of the with statement.

The exception passed in should never be reraised explicitly - instead, this method should return a false value to indicate that the method completed successfully and does not want to suppress the raised exception. This allows context management code to easily detect whether or not an __exit__() method has actually failed.

Python defines several context managers to support easy thread synchronisation, prompt closure of files or other objects, and simpler manipulation of the active decimal arithmetic context. The specific types are not treated specially beyond their implementation of the context management protocol. See the contextlib module for some examples.

Python’s generator s and the contextlib.contextmanager decorator provide a convenient way to implement these protocols. If a generator function is decorated with the contextlib.contextmanager decorator, it will return a context manager implementing the necessary __enter__() and __exit__() methods, rather than the iterator produced by an undecorated generator function.

Note that there is no specific slot for any of these methods in the type structure for Python objects in the Python/C API. Extension types wanting to define these methods must provide them as a normal Python accessible method. Compared to the overhead of setting up the runtime context, the overhead of a single class dictionary lookup is negligible.

Type Annotation Types — Generic Alias , Union ¶

The core built-in types for type annotations are Generic Alias and Union .

Generic Alias Type¶

GenericAlias objects are generally created by subscripting a class. They are most often used with container classes , such as list or dict . For example, list[int] is a GenericAlias object created by subscripting the list class with the argument int . GenericAlias objects are intended primarily for use with type annotations .

It is generally only possible to subscript a class if the class implements the special method __class_getitem__() .

A GenericAlias object acts as a proxy for a generic type , implementing parameterized generics.

For a container class, the argument(s) supplied to a subscription of the class may indicate the type(s) of the elements an object contains. For example, set[bytes] can be used in type annotations to signify a set in which all the elements are of type bytes .

For a class which defines __class_getitem__() but is not a container, the argument(s) supplied to a subscription of the class will often indicate the return type(s) of one or more methods defined on an object. For example, regular expressions can be used on both the str data type and the bytes data type:

  • If x = re.search('foo', 'foo') , x will be a re.Match object where the return values of x.group(0) and x[0] will both be of type str . We can represent this kind of object in type annotations with the GenericAlias re.Match[str] .
  • If y = re.search(b'bar', b'bar') , (note the b for bytes ), y will also be an instance of re.Match , but the return values of y.group(0) and y[0] will both be of type bytes . In type annotations, we would represent this variety of re.Match objects with re.Match[bytes] .

GenericAlias objects are instances of the class types.GenericAlias , which can also be used to create GenericAlias objects directly.

Creates a GenericAlias representing a type T parameterized by types X, Y, and more depending on the T used. For example, a function expecting a list containing float elements:

def average(values: list[float]) -> float: return sum(values) / len(values) 

Another example for mapping objects, using a dict , which is a generic type expecting two type parameters representing the key type and the value type. In this example, the function expects a dict with keys of type str and values of type int :

def send_post_request(url: str, body: dict[str, int]) -> None: . 

The builtin functions isinstance() and issubclass() do not accept GenericAlias types for their second argument:

>>> isinstance([1, 2], list[str]) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in TypeError: isinstance() argument 2 cannot be a parameterized generic 

The Python runtime does not enforce type annotations . This extends to generic types and their type parameters. When creating a container object from a GenericAlias , the elements in the container are not checked against their type. For example, the following code is discouraged, but will run without errors:

>>> t = list[str] >>> t([1, 2, 3]) [1, 2, 3] 

Furthermore, parameterized generics erase type parameters during object creation:

>>> t = list[str] >>> type(t) >>> l = t() >>> type(l)

Calling repr() or str() on a generic shows the parameterized type:

>>> repr(list[int]) 'list[int]' >>> str(list[int]) 'list[int]' 

The __getitem__() method of generic containers will raise an exception to disallow mistakes like dict[str][str] :

>>> dict[str][str] Traceback (most recent call last): . TypeError: dict[str] is not a generic class 

However, such expressions are valid when type variables are used. The index must have as many elements as there are type variable items in the GenericAlias object’s __args__ .

>>> from typing import TypeVar >>> Y = TypeVar('Y') >>> dict[str, Y][int] dict[str, int] 
Standard Generic Classes¶

The following standard library classes support parameterized generics. This list is non-exhaustive.

  • tuple
  • list
  • dict
  • set
  • frozenset
  • type
  • collections.deque
  • collections.defaultdict
  • collections.OrderedDict
  • collections.Counter
  • collections.ChainMap
  • collections.abc.Awaitable
  • collections.abc.Coroutine
  • collections.abc.AsyncIterable
  • collections.abc.AsyncIterator
  • collections.abc.AsyncGenerator
  • collections.abc.Iterable
  • collections.abc.Iterator
  • collections.abc.Generator
  • collections.abc.Reversible
  • collections.abc.Container
  • collections.abc.Collection
  • collections.abc.Callable
  • collections.abc.Set
  • collections.abc.MutableSet
  • collections.abc.Mapping
  • collections.abc.MutableMapping
  • collections.abc.Sequence
  • collections.abc.MutableSequence
  • collections.abc.ByteString
  • collections.abc.MappingView
  • collections.abc.KeysView
  • collections.abc.ItemsView
  • collections.abc.ValuesView
  • contextlib.AbstractContextManager
  • contextlib.AbstractAsyncContextManager
  • dataclasses.Field
  • functools.cached_property
  • functools.partialmethod
  • os.PathLike
  • queue.LifoQueue
  • queue.Queue
  • queue.PriorityQueue
  • queue.SimpleQueue
  • re.Pattern
  • re.Match
  • shelve.BsdDbShelf
  • shelve.DbfilenameShelf
  • shelve.Shelf
  • types.MappingProxyType
  • weakref.WeakKeyDictionary
  • weakref.WeakMethod
  • weakref.WeakSet
  • weakref.WeakValueDictionary
Special Attributes of GenericAlias objects¶

All parameterized generics implement special read-only attributes.

This attribute points at the non-parameterized generic class:

>>> list[int].__origin__
genericalias. __args__ ¶

This attribute is a tuple (possibly of length 1) of generic types passed to the original __class_getitem__() of the generic class:

>>> dict[str, list[int]].__args__ (, list[int]) 

genericalias. __parameters__ ¶

This attribute is a lazily computed tuple (possibly empty) of unique type variables found in __args__ :

>>> from typing import TypeVar >>> T = TypeVar('T') >>> list[T].__parameters__ (~T,) 

A GenericAlias object with typing.ParamSpec parameters may not have correct __parameters__ after substitution because typing.ParamSpec is intended primarily for static type checking.

genericalias. __unpacked__ ¶

A boolean that is true if the alias has been unpacked using the * operator (see TypeVarTuple ).

New in version 3.11.

Introducing Python’s framework for type annotations.

PEP 585 - Type Hinting Generics In Standard Collections

Introducing the ability to natively parameterize standard-library classes, provided they implement the special class method __class_getitem__() .

Documentation on how to implement generic classes that can be parameterized at runtime and understood by static type-checkers.

New in version 3.9.

Union Type¶

A union object holds the value of the | (bitwise or) operation on multiple type objects . These types are intended primarily for type annotations . The union type expression enables cleaner type hinting syntax compared to typing.Union .

Defines a union object which holds types X, Y, and so forth. X | Y means either X or Y. It is equivalent to typing.Union[X, Y] . For example, the following function expects an argument of type int or float :

def square(number: int | float) -> int | float: return number ** 2 

The | operand cannot be used at runtime to define unions where one or more members is a forward reference. For example, int | "Foo" , where "Foo" is a reference to a class not yet defined, will fail at runtime. For unions which include forward references, present the whole expression as a string, e.g. "int | Foo" .

union_object == other

Union objects can be tested for equality with other union objects. Details:

    Unions of unions are flattened:

(int | str) | float == int | str | float 
int | str | int == int | str 

Подсчет вхождений символа в строку Python

В этом посте мы обсудим, как подсчитывать количество вхождений символа в строку в Python.

1. Использование str.count() функция

Простое и эффективное решение состоит в том, чтобы получить общее количество вхождений символа в строке с помощью функции str.count() функция. Это лучшее решение для подсчета одного символа в строке.

if __name__ == '__main__' :
s = "ABADACB"
n = s . count ( 'A' )
print ( n ) # 3

2. Использование collections.Counter class

Если вам нужно найти частоту нескольких символов, вызывая str.count() функция для каждого символа не рекомендуется. Вместо этого было бы лучше, если бы вы использовали collections.Counter Класс Pythonа. Он работает, сохраняя каждый символ в виде ключей словаря, а их количество — в виде значений словаря.

import collections
if __name__ == '__main__' :
s = "ABADACB"
counter = collections . Counter ( s )
n = counter [ 'A' ]
print ( n ) # 3

The Counter class требует линейного времени для предварительной обработки строки и предлагает операции подсчета с постоянным временем. Однако он занимает некоторое место для хранения частоты каждого символа.

3. Использование словаря

В качестве альтернативы collections.Counter class, вы также можете создать простой словарь. Идея состоит в том, чтобы хранить каждый символ в виде ключей словаря, а их количество — в виде значений словаря.

Count Occurrences of a Character in a String in Python

Count Occurrences of a Character in a String in Python

  1. Use the count() Function to Count the Number of a Characters Occuring in a String in Python
  2. Use the collections.Counter to Count the Occurrences of a Character in a String in Python
  3. Use Regular Expressions to Count the Occurrences of a Character in a String in Python
  4. Use the defaultdict to Count the Occurrences of a Character in a String in Python
  5. Use the pandas.value_counts() to Count the Occurrences of a Character in a String in Python
  6. Use a lambda Expression to Count the Occurrences of a Character in a String in Python
  7. Use the for Loop to Count the Occurrences of a Character in a String in Python

In Programming, a string is a sequence of characters.

This tutorial will introduce how to count the number of occurrences of a character in a String in Python.

Use the count() Function to Count the Number of a Characters Occuring in a String in Python

We can count the occurrence of a value in strings using the count() function. It will return how many times the value appears in the given string.

print("Mary had a little lamb".count("a")) 

Remember, upper and lower cases are treated as different characters. A and a will be treated as different characters and have different counts.

Use the collections.Counter to Count the Occurrences of a Character in a String in Python

A Counter is a dictionary subclass present in the collections module. It stores the elements as dictionary keys, and their occurrences are stored as dictionary values. Instead of raising an error, it returns a zero count for missing items.

from collections import Counter  my_str = "Mary had a little lamb" counter = Counter(my_str) print(counter["a"]) 

It is a better choice when counting for many letters as counter calculates all the counts one time. It is a lot faster than the count() function.

Use Regular Expressions to Count the Occurrences of a Character in a String in Python

A regular expression is a specialized syntax held in a pattern that helps find the strings or set of strings by matching that pattern. We import the re module to work with regular expressions.

We can use the findall() function for our problem.

import re  my_string = "Mary had a little lamb" print(len(re.findall("a", my_string))) 

Use the defaultdict to Count the Occurrences of a Character in a String in Python

Defaultdict is present in the collections module and is derived from the dictionary class. Its functionality is relatively the same as that of dictionaries except that it never raises a KeyError , as it provides a default value for the key that never exists.

We can use it to get the occurrences of a character in a string as shown below.

from collections import defaultdict  text = "Mary had a little lamb" chars = defaultdict(int)  for char in text:  chars[char] += 1  print(chars["a"]) print(chars["t"]) print(chars["w"]) # element not present in the string, hence print 0 
4 2 0 

Use the pandas.value_counts() to Count the Occurrences of a Character in a String in Python

We can use the pandas.value_counts() method to get the occurrences of all the characters present in the provided string. We need to pass the string as a Series object.

import pandas as pd  phrase = "Mary had a little lamb" print(pd.Series(list(phrase)).value_counts()) 
 4 a 4 l 3 t 2 e 1 b 1 h 1 r 1 y 1 M 1 m 1 i 1 d 1 dtype: int64 

It returns the occurrences of all characters in a Series object.

Use a lambda Expression to Count the Occurrences of a Character in a String in Python

lambda functions can not only count occurrences from the given string, but can also work when we have the string, as a list of sub-strings.

See the following code.

sentence = ["M", "ar", "y", "had", "a", "little", "l", "am", "b"] print(sum(map(lambda x: 1 if "a" in x else 0, sentence))) 

Use the for Loop to Count the Occurrences of a Character in a String in Python

We iterate over the string, and if the element equals the desired character, the count variable is incremented till we reach the end of the string.

sentence = "Mary had a little lamb" count = 0 for i in sentence:  if i == "a":  count = count + 1 print(count) 

We can see another way of using this method with the sum() function can be seen below.

my_string = "Mary had a little lamb" print(sum(char == "a" for char in my_string)) 

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