.. _stringservices:

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07. String Services
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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 :ref:`typesseq` section, and also the
string-specific methods described in the :ref:`string-methods` section.
To output formatted strings use template strings or the ``%`` operator
described in the :ref:`string-formatting` section. Also, see the
:mod:`re` module for string functions based on regular expressions.

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1
    :numbered:

    7.1.string
    7.2.re
    7.3.struct
    7.4.difflib
    7.5.stringio
    7.6.cstringio
    7.7.textwrap
    7.8.codecs
    7.9.unicodedata
    7.10.stringprep
    7.11.fpformat