Practice Useful String Methods (7.4) - Strings in Python

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Question 1.
What does the lower() method do?
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Look at how 'HELLO' and 'hello' are different.
Question 2.
Explain what strip() accomplishes on a string.
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Consider what happens when you have extra spaces.
3Question 3.
What does the method lower() do?
- Converts to uppercase
- Converts to lowercase
- Removes whitespace
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Think about lower case letters.
4Question 4.
True or False: The strip() method removes spaces from the middle of the string.
- True
- False
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Consider where spaces are removed.
Question 5.
Create a function that takes a string with spaces, replaces all spaces with hyphens, and converts it to lowercase.
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Think about using both replace and lower methods.
Question 6.
Write code to count how many times 'apple' appears in 'apple banana apple'.
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What method counts occurrences of substrings?

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