Python Pocket Reference, 3rd Edition

The string Module

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winver

Version number used to form registry keys on Windows

platforms (available only on Windows; see the Python

Library Reference).

The string Module

The string module defines constants and variables for pro-

cessing string objects. See also the section “Strings,” earlier in

this book, for a discussion of the string template substitution

tools

Template and SafeTemplate defined in this module.

Module Functions

As of Python 2.0, most functions in this module are also

available as methods of string objects, and method-based

calls are preferred and are more efficient. See the section

“Strings,” earlier in this book, for more details and a list of all

available string methods not repeated here. Only items

unique to the

string module are listed in this section.

atof(s)

atoi(s [, base])

atol(s [, base])

Severely deprecated string-to-number converters. Use

built-in functions

float(), int(), and long() instead (see

the section “Built-in Functions,” earlier in this book).

capwords(s)

Split the argument into words using split, capitalize

each word using

capitalize, and join the capitalized

words using

join. Replaces runs of whitespace charac-

ters by a single space, and removes leading and trailing

whitespace.