The modules described in this chapter provide a wide range of string manipulation operations.

In addition, Python’s built-in string classes support the sequence type methods described in the Sequence Types — str, bytes, bytearray, list, tuple, range section, and also the string-specific methods described in the String Methods section. To output formatted strings, see the String Formatting section. Also, see the re module for string functions based on regular expressions.

• string — Common string operations
  • String constants
  • String Formatting
  • Format String Syntax
    • Format Specification Mini-Language
  • Template strings
  • String functions
• re — Regular expression operations
  • Regular Expression Syntax
  • Matching vs Searching
  • Module Contents
  • Regular Expression Objects
  • Match Objects
  • Examples
    • Checking For a Pair
    • Simulating scanf()
    • Avoiding recursion
    • search() vs. match()
    • Making a Phonebook
    • Text Munging
    • Finding all Adverbs
    • Finding all Adverbs and their Positions
    • Raw String Notation
• struct — Interpret bytes as packed binary data
  • Struct Objects
• difflib — Helpers for computing deltas
  • SequenceMatcher Objects
  • SequenceMatcher Examples
  • Differ Objects
  • Differ Example
  • A command-line interface to difflib
• textwrap — Text wrapping and filling
• codecs — Codec registry and base classes
  • Codec Base Classes
    • Codec Objects
    • IncrementalEncoder Objects
    • IncrementalDecoder Objects
    • StreamWriter Objects
    • StreamReader Objects
    • StreamReaderWriter Objects
    • StreamRecoder Objects
  • Encodings and Unicode
  • Standard Encodings
  • encodings.idna — Internationalized Domain Names in Applications
  • encodings.utf_8_sig — UTF-8 codec with BOM signature
• unicodedata — Unicode Database
• stringprep — Internet String Preparation