strings and string methods many programmersregardless of their specialtydeal with text on daily basis for exampleweb developers work with text input from web forms data scientists process text to extract data and perform tasks like sentiment analysiswhich can help identify and classify opinions in body of text collections of text in python are called strings special functions called string methods are used to manipulate strings there are string methods for changing string from lowercase to uppercaseremoving whitespace from the beginning or end of stringreplacing parts of string with different textand much more in this you'll learn how tomanipulate strings with string methods work with user input deal with strings of numbers format strings for printing let' get started