4. String Services
The modules described in this chapter provide a wide range of string manipulation operations. Here's an overview:
| string | Common string operations. | |
| re | Regular expression search and match operations with a Perl-style expression syntax. | |
| struct | Interpret strings as packed binary data. | |
| difflib | Helpers for computing differences between objects. | |
| StringIO | Read and write strings as if they were files. | |
| cStringIO | Faster version of StringIO, but not subclassable. | |
| textwrap | Text wrapping and filling | |
| codecs | Encode and decode data and streams. | |
| encodings.idna | Internationalized Domain Names implementation | |
| encodings.utf-8-sig | UTF-8 codec with BOM signature | |
| unicodedata | Access the Unicode Database. | |
| stringprep | String preparation, as per RFC 3453 | |
| fpformat | General floating point formatting functions. |
Information on the methods of string objects can be found in section 3.6.1, ``String Methods.''
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