1 2.. _stringservices: 3 4*************** 5String Services 6*************** 7 8The modules described in this chapter provide a wide range of string 9manipulation operations. 10 11In addition, Python's built-in string classes support the sequence type 12methods described in the :ref:`typesseq` section, and also the 13string-specific methods described in the :ref:`string-methods` section. 14To output formatted strings use template strings or the ``%`` operator 15described in the :ref:`string-formatting` section. Also, see the 16:mod:`re` module for string functions based on regular expressions. 17 18 19.. toctree:: 20 21 string.rst 22 re.rst 23 struct.rst 24 difflib.rst 25 stringio.rst 26 textwrap.rst 27 codecs.rst 28 unicodedata.rst 29 stringprep.rst 30 fpformat.rst 31 32