The Python Standard Library by Example

Chapter 1. Text

The string class is the most obvious text-processing tool available to Python programmers, but plenty of other tools in the standard library are available to make advanced text manipulation simple.

Older code, written before Python 2.0, uses functions from the string module, instead of methods of string objects. There is an equivalent method for each function from the module, and use of the functions is deprecated for new code.

Programs using Python 2.4 or later may use string.Template as a simple way to parameterize strings beyond the features of the string or unicode classes. While not as feature-rich as templates defined by many of the Web frameworks or extension modules available from the Python Package Index, string.Template ...