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Python has an extremely rich set of string methods, over 40 of them last I counted.

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What we've covered here are the essential ones.

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And I'd like show you how to find the rest of them and how to use them.

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It's really quite straightforward.

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Here we have the Python documentation page or the Python Standard Library.

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And we'll notice this is section 5, Built-in Types.

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And down here we see this link of 5.6.1 String Methods.

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And here's a complete list of all the string methods.

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Like for example, here is this center one.

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And we see that center it takes with and an optional fill character and it

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returns a centered string of length width.

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And padding is done using this specified fill character. Default is a space.

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So if I had a string, 'this is a string', and I wanted to center it on say 80

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character string, I would simply say new = s.center(80) like that.

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And now I have a new string.

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And we see that this new string is 80 characters wide.

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I can check if I want to. length of new is 80.

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And we see that the string from my original string is centered there.

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Like I said, there are over 40 of these different methods.

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And here's the entire list and they are all very well documented.

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It's really simple.

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It's not in a terribly technical language.

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And so I encourage you to take the time and at least read through this one and

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get an idea for what is available.

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And then refer to it when you need one.

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That makes it really easy for you to have these tools at your disposal without

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having to memorize everything, without having to go through a lot of detail on

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the ones that you are not going to use very often.

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So use the documentation in this case.

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There is a great wealth of string methods available.

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And I encourage you to become familiar with them and use them.