Professional IronPython

encode([object encoding[, str errors]])
: Encodes a string to another format. You 
have the same options as when decoding a string (see the 
decode()
entry in this list). For 
example, you might want to encode a string using uuencode. To perform this task, you’d 
type 
EncodeString = MyString.encode(‘uu_codec‘)
. After the call, 
EncodeString
would contain the uuencoded string.
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endswith(object suffix[, int start[, int end]])
: Determines whether the string 
ends with a particular letter or substring, 
suffix
. You may optionally provide a starting 
point, 
start
, and ending point, 
end
, in the string. When using an end value, 
endswith()
checks the designated endpoint, rather than the actual end of the string. For example, if you 
want to determine whether there’s a l at position 4 (an end point of 3 since the string count 
begins with 0), you’d type 
MyString.endswith(‘l‘, 0, 3)
.
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expandtabs([int tabsize])
: Expands the tabs within a string using spaces. You may option-
ally provide the number of spaces to use for each tab using 
tabsize
. For example, if you want 
to expand the tabs in a string to four spaces, you’d type 
MyString.expandtabs(4)
.
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find(str sub[, int start[, int end]])
 or 
find(str sub, object start, object 
end)
: Locates the substring, 
sub
, within the string and outputs an integer value defining the 
first occurrence of the substring. You can optionally add a starting, 
start
, and ending, 
end
, 
value to change the location that the method searches within the string (the default is to search 
the entire string). In this case, the starting and ending value need not be an integer value, but 
can be an object that defines the starting and ending point instead. For example, if you want 
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