s = "Hey therea ahat shou"
 
# Length should be 20
print "Length of s = %d" % len(s)
 
# First occurrence of "a" should be at index 8
print "The first occurrence of the letter a = %d" % s.index("a")
 
# Number of a's should be 2
print "a occurs %d times" % s.count("a")
 
# Slicing the string into bits
print "The first five characters are '%s'" % s[:5] # Start to 5
print "The next five characters are '%s'" % s[5:10] # 5 to 10
print "The twelfth character is '%s'" % s[12] # Just number 12
 
print "The last five characters are '%s'" % s[-5:] # 5th-from-last to end
 
# Convert everything to uppercase
print "String in uppercase: %s" % s.upper()
 
# Convert everything to lowercase
print "String in lowercase: %s" % s.lower()
 
# Check how a string starts
if s.startswith("Str"):
    print "String starts with 'Str'. Good!"
 
# Check how a string ends
if s.endswith("ome!"):
    print "String ends with 'ome!'. Good!"
 
# Split the string into three separate strings, 
# each containing only a word
print "Split the words of the string: %s" % s.split(" ")

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