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"Hello World"  # Put your cursor in this text-box and hit "Shift+Enter" on your keyboard.


    

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print("Hello World")  # Okay, now do that again. See how with print(), Jupyter doesn't add quotes.


    

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print('Hello World')  # You can also use single-quotes around strings.


    

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print("Mike's Hello World")  # Use whichever quotes you need when you need them.


    

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print("b\nl\na\nh\ttab1\ttab2\ttab3")  # There are some special characters in Python like \n for line return.


    

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print(r"b\nl\na\nh\ttab1\ttab2\ttab3")  # You can neutralize special characters with the "raw" directive on a string.


    

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arbitrary_string = "Mike's Hello World"  # "Variable" names are arbirtary but have certain limitations (must start with letter)
print(arbitrary_string)


    

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for letter in arbitrary_string:  # Python can treat a string as a series of individual characters.
    print(letter)


    

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for letter in arbitrary_string:
    print(letter, end=" ")       # Commands like print often have additonal controls as you see here.


    

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arbitrary_string[1:17]  # Python has a concept of "slicing" which works really well on lists.


    

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arbitrary_string[:17]  # You can leave out the number at the beginning to stand for 0.


    

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arbitrary_string[1:]  # You can leave out the number at the end to stand for the end-length of the sequence.


    

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arbitrary_string[:-6]  # You can use negative indexes to go back from the end.


    

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copy_of_string = arbitrary_string[:]  # You can use this as an alternative to string.copy() (avoiding getting original object)
copy_of_string


    

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help(print)  # You can type help() around any function name to see its built-in documentation.


    

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import this