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Lecture

Strings: Basics and Manipulation

Description

This lecture covers the basics of strings in Python, explaining how strings are sequences of Unicode characters, the creation of string literals, immutability of strings, indexing, slicing, and formatted strings. The instructor also demonstrates how to manipulate strings by accessing elements, changing characters, and using stride.

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