.. _stringservices:
.. _textservices:

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Text Processing Services
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The modules described in this chapter provide a wide range of string
manipulation operations and other text processing services.

The :mod:`codecs` module described under :ref:`binaryservices` is also
highly relevant to text processing. In addition, see the documentation for
Python's built-in string type in :ref:`textseq`.


.. toctree::

   string.rst
   re.rst
   difflib.rst
   textwrap.rst
   unicodedata.rst
   stringprep.rst
   readline.rst
   rlcompleter.rst