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4. String Services

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

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Release 2.1.3, documentation updated on April 8, 2002.