The modules described in this chapter provide a wide range of string manipulation operations. Here's an overview:
| string | Common string operations. |
| re | Regular expression search and match operations with a Perl-style expression syntax. |
| struct | Interpret strings as packed binary data. |
| fpformat | General floating point formatting functions. |
| StringIO | Read and write strings as if they were files. |
| cStringIO | Faster version of StringIO, but not subclassable. |
| codecs | Encode and decode data and streams. |
| unicodedata | Access the Unicode Database. |