1.. _stringservices:
2.. _textservices:
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5Text Processing Services
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8The modules described in this chapter provide a wide range of string
9manipulation operations and other text processing services.
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11The :mod:`codecs` module described under :ref:`binaryservices` is also
12highly relevant to text processing. In addition, see the documentation for
13Python's built-in string type in :ref:`textseq`.
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16.. toctree::
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18   string.rst
19   re.rst
20   difflib.rst
21   textwrap.rst
22   unicodedata.rst
23   stringprep.rst
24   readline.rst
25   rlcompleter.rst
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