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7. String Services
The modules described in this chapter provide a wide range of string manipulation operations.
In addition, Python’s built-in string classes support the sequence type methods described in the Sequence Types — str, unicode, list, tuple, buffer, xrange section, and also the string-specific methods described in the String Methods section. To output formatted strings use template strings or the % operator described in the String Formatting Operations section. Also, see the re module for string functions based on regular expressions.
- 7.1. string — Common string operations
- 7.2. re — Regular expression operations
- 7.3. struct — Interpret strings as packed binary data
- 7.4. difflib — Helpers for computing deltas
- 7.5. StringIO — Read and write strings as files
- 7.6. cStringIO — Faster version of StringIO
- 7.7. textwrap — Text wrapping and filling
- 7.8. codecs — Codec registry and base classes
- 7.9. unicodedata — Unicode Database
- 7.10. stringprep — Internet String Preparation
- 7.11. fpformat — Floating point conversions