Python provides several useful methods that can be used to manipulate strings. These methods can be used for cleaning, splitting, translating, or otherwise working with any object of type str. Strings can be concatenated using the + operator or with str.join(). Strings also implement all common sequence operations and can be iterated through using the for item in <string> syntax.

Strings are immutable, meaning the value of a str object in memory cannot change. That means any functions or methods that operate on a str object will return a new instance or copy of that str, instead of modifying the original.