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“JavaScript doesn’t have a character type. So characters are returned as new strings containing one character.” — Eric Freeman Copy Share Image
“If you give it an index that is greater than or equal to the length of the string, it returns the empty string.” — Eric Freeman Copy Share Image
“Because string theory is such a high-risk venture—unsupported by experiment,” — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“Because string theory is such a high-risk venture—unsupported by experiment, though very generously supported by the academic” — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.” — Doug Larsen Copy Share Image
Ask Bill [Gates] why the string in function 9 is terminated by a dollar sign. Ask him, because he can't answer, only I know that. — Gary Kildall Copy Share Image
“In Beachcomber’s hilarious columns about the Apostropher Royal in The Express, a certain perversely comforting law is often reiterated: the Law of Conservation of… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“the Law of Conservation of Apostrophes. A heresy since the 13th century, this law states that a balance exists in nature: “For every apostrophe… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, the iteration protocol is even more pervasive in Python today than the examples so far have demonstrated — essentially everything in Python’s built-in… — Mark Lutz Copy Share Image
“Boolean and and or operators return a true or false object in Python, not the values True or False.” — Mark Lutz Copy Share Image
“Besides directory paths on Windows, raw strings are also commonly used for regular expressions” — Mark Lutz Copy Share Image
“absolutes in performance benchmarks are as elusive as consensus in open source projects!” — Mark Lutz Copy Share Image
“The name used as the assignment target in a for header line is usually a (possibly new) variable in the scope where the for… — Mark Lutz Copy Share Image
“give people a tool, and they’ll code for a day; teach them how to build tools, and they’ll code for a lifetime. This” — Mark Lutz Copy Share Image
“This description requires elaboration when the value and the slice being assigned overlap: L[2:5]=L[3:6], for instance, works fine because the value to be inserted… — Mark Lutz Copy Share Image
“We met the list comprehension briefly in Chapter 4. Syntactically, its syntax is derived from a construct in set theory notation that applies an operation… — Mark Lutz Copy Share Image