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 type(1)
 type("1")
-</pre>
-There's another useful function that works on strings called <code>len</code>. <code>len</code> returns the length of a string:
-<pre>
-string = "Hello"
-len(string)
-print len("triskaidekaphobia")
-length = len("")
-print length
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 Like the <code>type</code> function from before, the <code>str</code> function takes 1 argument, in the example the integer 1. <code>str</code> takes in input and produces a string version of that input as output.
+====String length====
+There's another useful function that works on strings called <code>len</code>. <code>len</code> returns the length of a string as an integer:
+<pre>
+string = "Hello"
+len(string)
+print len("")
+print "The length of triskaidekaphobia is", len("triskaidekaphobia")
+</pre>
 ===Quotes===