Professional IronPython

ljust(int width[, Char fillchar])
: Left-justifies the string to a length specified by 
width
by padding the left end with the specified number of characters. You can optionally 
specify a fill character other than the default of a space by providing 
fillchar
. For example, 
if you want to left-justify a string to 40 spaces and fill the spaces with an *, you’d type 
MyString.ljust(40, ‘*‘)
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lower()
: Returns the lowercase version of the string.
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lstrip([str chars])
: Removes white space from the beginning of a string by default. You 
may also provide a 
chars
value as input. In this case, the method removes that character from 
the beginning of the string when it exists. For example, to remove the leading spaces from a 
string, you’d type 
MyString.lstrip()
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partition(str sep)
: Divides the string into three parts based on the value of 
sep
.
The first part contains the piece of the string before 
sep
, the second part contains 
sep
, 
and the third part contains the piece of the string after 
sep
. For example, to split a string 
at the first space, you’d type 
MyString.partition(‘ ‘)
.
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replace(object old, object new[, int maxsplit])
: Replaces the occurrences of 
old
with 
new
in the target string. You may provide an optional number of replacements to make 
by defining 
maxsplit
. For example, if you want to replace the spaces in a string with the 
newline escape code, you’d type 
MyString.replace(‘ ‘, ‘/n‘)
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rfind()
: Performs the same task as 
find()
, except that this method searches from the right 
end of the string, rather than the left. See the 
find()
entry in the list for details.
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