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<span id="stringservices"></span><h1>7. String Services<a class="headerlink" href="#string-services" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<p>The modules described in this chapter provide a wide range of string
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manipulation operations.</p>
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<p>In addition, Python’s built-in string classes support the sequence type
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methods described in the <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#typesseq"><span>Sequence Types — str, unicode, list, tuple, bytearray, buffer, xrange</span></a> section, and also the
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To output formatted strings use template strings or the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%</span></code> operator
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described in the <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#string-formatting"><span>String Formatting Operations</span></a> section. Also, see the
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<a class="reference internal" href="re.html#module-re" title="re: Regular expression operations."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">re</span></code></a> module for string functions based on regular expressions.</p>
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