Section 6.21. Summary of Sequences

6.21. Summary of Sequences

Sequence types provide various mechanisms for ordered storage of data. Strings are a general medium for carrying data, whether it be displayed to a user, stored on a disk, transmitted across the network, or be a singular container for multiple sources of information. Lists and tuples provide container storage that allows for simple manipulation and access of multiple objects, whether they be Python data types or user-defined objects. Individual or groups of elements may be accessed as slices via sequentially ordered index offsets. Together, these data types provide flexible and easy-to-use storage tools in your Python development environment. We conclude this chapter with a summary of operators, built-in functions and methods for sequence types given in Table 6.13.

Table 6.13. Sequence Type Operators, Built-in Functions and Methods

Operator, Built-in Function or Method	String	List	Tuple
[] (list creation)		•
()			•
""	•
append()		•
capitalize()	•
center()	•
chr()	•
cmp()	•	•	•
count()	•	•
decode()	•
encode()	•
endswith()	•
expandtabs()	•
extend()		•
find()	•
hex()	•
index()	•	•
insert()		•
isdecimal()	•
isdigit()	•
islower()	•
isnumeric()	•
isspace()	•
istitle()	•
isupper()	•
join()	•
len()	•	•	•
list()	•	•	•
ljust()	•
lower()	•
lstrip()	•
max()	•	•	•
min()	•	•	•
oct()	•
ord()	•
pop()		•
raw_input()	•
remove()		•
replace()	•
repr()	•	•	•
reverse()		•
rfind()	•
rindex()	•
rjust()	•
rstrip()	•
sort()		•
split()	•
splitlines()	•
startswith()	•
str()	•	•	•
strip()	•
swapcase()	•
split()	•
title()	•
tuple()	•	•	•
type()	•	•	•
upper()	•
zfill()	•
.(attributes)	•	•
[] (slice)	•	•	•
[:]	•	•	•
*	•	•	•
%	•
+	•	•	•
in	•	•	•
not in	•	•	•