Storing text

Exercise 1:

So far, we have only worked with numbers. Now we will work with text as well.

In [1]: first = 'Emily'
In [2]: last = "Smith"
In [3]: name = first + " " + last
In [4]: name

Exercise 2:

What do the following statements do?

In [5]: name[0]
In [6]: name[3]
In [7]: name[-1]

Exercise 3:

Is it possible to include the following special characters in a string?

Ä á @ ? & * \ / " '

Exercise 4:

What does name contain after the following statements? Explain the code.

In [8]: name = ""
In [9]: anna = "Anna"
In [10]: name = anna[0] + name
In [11]: name = anna[1] + name
In [12]: name = anna[2] + name
In [13]: name = anna[3] + name
In [14]: name

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