Chapter 9. Strings and Regular Expressions

Python supports plain and Unicode strings extensively, with statements, operators, built-in functions, methods, and dedicated modules. This chapter covers the methods of string objects, talks about string formatting, documents the string, pprint, and repr modules, and discusses issues related to Unicode strings.

Regular expressions let you specify pattern strings and allow searches and substitutions. Regular expressions are not easy to master, but they are a powerful tool for processing text. Python offers rich regular expression functionality through the built-in re module, as documented in this chapter.