'''strings3.py

   Jeff Ondich, 2 April 2009

   This sample program will introduce you to some standard string
   operations.  See http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#id4
   for documentation on these operations and many more.
'''

# Using the "replace" method.
#
# -- Got to the link shown above, and scroll down to the paragraph
#     about "str.replace".  Does the description of "replace" in
#     this documentation describe what you observe when you run the
#     the code below?  (It should, but you never know...)
# -- Do the replace operations below modify the string s, or just t?
#     Why does one change, but not the other?
# -- In the second replace operation, what would happen if we did
#     t = s.replace('cranky', 'content') instead of what's there?

s = 'The goat and the other goat are cranky.'
t = s.replace('goat', 'moose')
t = t.replace('cranky', 'content')
print 'Original:', s
print 'Modified:', t
print


# Using the "find" method.
#
# -- Read about str.find in the Python string documentation (same
#     link as above).  Try to predict what the following code will
#     print before you run it.

s = 'The goat and the other goat are cranky.'
print s.find('goat')
print s.find('moose')
print s.rfind('goat')

if s.find('goat') >= 0:
    print 'There is a goat here.'
else:
    print 'No goat.'

if s.find('moose') >= 0:
    print 'There is a moose here.'
else:
    print 'No moose.'

print


# Exploring other methods.
#
# -- Take a look at the documentation for str.lower, str.upper,
#      str.strip, str.isdigit, and str.isalpha.  Create some
#      little tests for these operations to see whether they
#      work as you expect them to.  For example...

s = '12345'
if s.isdigit():
    print s, 'is entirely composed of digits'
else:
    print s, 'contains something that is not a digit'
print