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

-- New Perl-style regular expression search and match operations.

regex

-- Regular expression search and match operations.

regsub

-- Substitution and splitting operations that use regular expressions.

struct

-- Interpret strings as packed binary data.

StringIO

-- Read and write strings as if they were files.

cStringIO

-- Faster version of StringIO, but not subclassable.