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<span id="textservices"></span><span id="stringservices"></span><h1>6. Text Processing Services<a class="headerlink" href="#text-processing-services" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>The modules described in this chapter provide a wide range of string
manipulation operations and other text processing services.</p>
<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="codecs.html#module-codecs" title="codecs: Encode and decode data and streams."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">codecs</span></code></a> module described under <a class="reference internal" href="binary.html#binaryservices"><span>Binary Data Services</span></a> is also
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