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.
fpformat
General floating point formatting functions.
StringIO
Read and write strings as if they were files.
cStringIO
Faster version of
StringIO, but not
subclassable.
codecs
Encode and decode data and streams.
Information on the methods of string objects can be found in
section 2.2.6, ``String Methods.''
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