Python - Strings.ipynb

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      "Help on built-in function translate:\n",
      "\n",
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      "    S.translate(table) -> str\n",
      "    \n",
      "    Return a copy of the string S in which each character has been mapped\n",
      "    through the given translation table. The table must implement\n",
      "    lookup/indexing via __getitem__, for instance a dictionary or list,\n",
      "    mapping Unicode ordinals to Unicode ordinals, strings, or None. If\n",
      "    this operation raises LookupError, the character is left untouched.\n",
      "    Characters mapped to None are deleted.\n",
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      "Help on built-in function maketrans:\n",
      "\n",
      "maketrans(x, y=None, z=None, /)\n",
      "    Return a translation table usable for str.translate().\n",
      "    \n",
      "    If there is only one argument, it must be a dictionary mapping Unicode\n",
      "    ordinals (integers) or characters to Unicode ordinals, strings or None.\n",
      "    Character keys will be then converted to ordinals.\n",
      "    If there are two arguments, they must be strings of equal length, and\n",
      "    in the resulting dictionary, each character in x will be mapped to the\n",
      "    character at the same position in y. If there is a third argument, it\n",
      "    must be a string, whose characters will be mapped to None in the result.\n",
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      "Help on built-in function zfill:\n",
      "\n",
      "zfill(...) method of builtins.str instance\n",
      "    S.zfill(width) -> str\n",
      "    \n",
      "    Pad a numeric string S with zeros on the left, to fill a field\n",
      "    of the specified width. The string S is never truncated.\n",
      "\n"
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