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String Services<a class="headerlink" href="#string-services" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1> <p>The modules described in this chapter provide a wide range of string manipulation operations.</p> <p>In addition, Python’s built-in string classes support the sequence type methods described in the <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#typesseq"><em>Sequence Types — str, unicode, list, tuple, bytearray, buffer, xrange</em></a> section, and also the string-specific methods described in the <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#string-methods"><em>String Methods</em></a> section. To output formatted strings use template strings or the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%</span></tt> operator described in the <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#string-formatting"><em>String Formatting Operations</em></a> section. Also, see the <a class="reference internal" href="re.html#module-re" title="re: Regular expression operations."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">re</span></tt></a> module for string functions based on regular expressions.</p> <div class="toctree-wrapper compound"> <ul> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="string.html">7.1. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">string</span></tt> — Common string operations</a><ul> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="string.html#string-constants">7.1.1. String constants</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="string.html#string-formatting">7.1.2. String Formatting</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="string.html#format-string-syntax">7.1.3. Format String Syntax</a><ul> <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="string.html#format-specification-mini-language">7.1.3.1. Format Specification Mini-Language</a></li> <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="string.html#format-examples">7.1.3.2. Format examples</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="string.html#template-strings">7.1.4. Template strings</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="string.html#string-functions">7.1.5. String functions</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="string.html#deprecated-string-functions">7.1.6. Deprecated string functions</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="re.html">7.2. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">re</span></tt> — Regular expression operations</a><ul> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="re.html#regular-expression-syntax">7.2.1. Regular Expression Syntax</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="re.html#module-contents">7.2.2. Module Contents</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="re.html#regular-expression-objects">7.2.3. Regular Expression Objects</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="re.html#match-objects">7.2.4. Match Objects</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="re.html#examples">7.2.5. Examples</a><ul> <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="re.html#checking-for-a-pair">7.2.5.1. Checking For a Pair</a></li> <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="re.html#simulating-scanf">7.2.5.2. Simulating scanf()</a></li> <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="re.html#search-vs-match">7.2.5.3. search() vs. match()</a></li> <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="re.html#making-a-phonebook">7.2.5.4. Making a Phonebook</a></li> <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="re.html#text-munging">7.2.5.5. 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