Built-in modules for strings
============================

The Python standard library contains a number of built-in modules that you can
use to manage strings:

.. _string-modules:

+-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Module                | Description                                                                   |
+=======================+===============================================================================+
| :py:mod:`string`      | compares with constants such as :py:data:`string.digits` or                   |
|                       | :py:data:`string.whitespace`                                                  |
+-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| :py:mod:`re`          | searches and replaces text with regular expressions                           |
+-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| :py:mod:`struct`      | interprets bytes as packed binary data                                        |
+-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| :py:mod:`difflib`     | helps to calculate deltas, find differences between strings or sequences and  |
|                       | create patches and diff files                                                 |
+-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| :py:mod:`textwrap`    | wraps and fills text, formats text with line breaks or spaces                 |
+-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

.. _end-string-modules:

.. seealso::
   * :doc:`Manipulation of strings with pandas
     <Python4DataScience:workspace/pandas/string-manipulation>`
   * `humanize <https://humanize.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>`_

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   string
   re