16. String and Text Handling
This chapter describes the most commonly used Python modules related to basic string and text processing. The focus of this chapter is on the most common string operations such as processing text, regular expression pattern matching, and text formatting.
codecs
The codecs module is used to handle different character encodings used with Unicode text I/O. The module is used both to define new character encodings and to process character data using a wide range of existing encodings such as UTF-8, UTF-16, etc. It is far more common for programmers to simply use one of the existing encodings, so that is what is discussed here. If you want to create new encodings, consult the online documentation for further details. ...
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