Professional IronPython

part into individual lines, you’d type 
MyString.splitlines()
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startswith()
: Performs the same task as 
endswith()
, except that this method works with 
the beginning of the string, rather than the end of the string. See the 
endswith()
entry in the 
list for details.
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strip()
: Performs the same task as 
lstrip()
, except that this method removes spaces (or 
other characters) from both ends of the string, rather than just the left. See the 
lstrip()
entry in the list for details.
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swapcase()
: Sets all of the lowercase characters to uppercase and all of the uppercase char-
acters to lowercase. For example, if you begin with ‘Hello World’, you’d receive ‘hELLO 
wORLD’ as output if you typed 
MyString.swapcase()
.
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title()
: Returns a title-cased version of a string where the first letter of each word is capi-
talized and all other letters are lowercase. For example, if you begin with ‘helLo wORLD’, 
you’d receive ‘Hello World’ as output if you typed 
MyString.title()
.
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translate(str table, [str deletechars])
 or 
translate(dict table)
: Replaces the 
characters in a string with the equivalents specified by 
table
. The 
table
argument is 256 
characters long and you can create it using the 
MakeTrans()
function found in the string 
module. (Remember to use 
from string import maketrans
to make accessing the func-
tion easy.) For example, if you want to replace the first 16 lowercase letters with hexadeci-
mal equivalents, you’d type 
MyString.translate(maketrans(‘abcdefghijklmnop‘, 
‘0123456789ABCDEF‘))
. Using this code as a starting point, ‘Hello World’ becomes
‘H4BBE WErB3’.
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