Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

Text Management

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Pattern matching—regular expressions are not the only way to parse patterns; Python provides easier and just as powerful tools to parse patterns
• Text similarity—detecting how two similar strings in a performing way can be hard but Python has some easy-to-use built-in tools
• Text suggestion—Python looks for the most similar one to suggest to the user the right spelling
• Templating—when generating text, templating is the easiest way to define the rules
• Splitting strings preserving spaces—splitting on empty spaces can be easy, but gets harder when you want to preserve some spaces
• Cleanup text—removes any punctuation or odd character from text
• Normalizing text—when working with ...