'''
Created on Sep 7, 2011

@author: rodger
'''
name = "Darth Vater"
print name.lower()
nameV = "VVDarth VaterVVV"
print name.strip("V")
print nameV.strip("V")
print nameV.strip('V')
print name.find("Vater")
print name.find("D")
print name.replace("Vat","Tat")
print "mississippi".replace("ss", "pp")
print "type".endswith("e")
print "type".startswith("e")
print name.replace("a","o").lower()