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In the following example, we initialize an integer to zero, then convert it to a string, then check to see if it is empty. Note the data declaration (highlighted), which is necessary in Java but not in Python. Notice also how verbose Java is, even in an operation as basic as comparing two strings for equality.

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language	java
title	Strings in Java

int    myCounter = 0;
String myString = String.valueOf(myCounter);
if (myString.equals("0")) ...

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language	py
title	Strings in Python

myCounter = 0
myString = str(myCounter)
if myString == "0": ...

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language	java
title	Strings in Java

// print the integers from 1 to 9
for (int i = 1; i < 10; i++)
{
   System.out.println(i);
}

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language	py
title	Strings in Python

 print the integers from 1 to 9
for i in range(1,10):
    print i

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