The modules described in this chapter provide a wide range of stringmanipulation 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 ofStringIO, but not subclassable. |
| codecs | | Encode and decode data and streams. |
| unicodedata | | Access the Unicode Database. |
