Text Processing Services¶
The modules described in this chapter provide a wide range of stringmanipulation operations and other text processing services.
Thecodecs
module described underBinary Data Services is alsohighly relevant to text processing. In addition, see the documentation forPython’s built-in string type inText Sequence Type — str.
string
— Common string operationsre
— Regular expression operationsdifflib
— Helpers for computing deltastextwrap
— Text wrapping and fillingunicodedata
— Unicode Databasestringprep
— Internet String Preparationreadline
— GNU readline interfacerlcompleter
— Completion function for GNU readline