The modules described in this chapter provide a wide range of string manipulation operations and other text processing services.
The :mod:`codecs` module described under :ref:`binaryservices` is also highly relevant to text processing. In addition, see the documentation for Python's built-in string type in :ref:`textseq`.
.. toctree:: string.rst string.templatelib.rst re.rst difflib.rst textwrap.rst unicodedata.rst stringprep.rst readline.rst rlcompleter.rst