6. Text Processing Services¶
The modules described in this chapter provide a wide range of string manipulation operations and other text processing services.
The codecs module described under Binary Data Services is also
highly relevant to text processing. In addition, see the documentation for
Pythonâs built-in string type in Text Sequence Type â str.
- 6.1.
stringâ Common string operations - 6.2.
reâ Regular expression operations - 6.3.
difflibâ Helpers for computing deltas - 6.4.
textwrapâ Text wrapping and filling - 6.5.
unicodedataâ Unicode Database - 6.6.
stringprepâ Internet String Preparation - 6.7.
readlineâ GNU readline interface - 6.8.
rlcompleterâ Completion function for GNU readline