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 Python’s built-in string type in Text 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