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`A collection of string operations (most are no longer used).
Warning: most of the code you see here isn't normally used nowadays.
Beginning with Python 1.6, many of these functions are implemented as
methods on the standard string object. They used to be implemented by
a built-in module called strop, but strop is now obsolete itself.
Public module variables:
whitespace -- a string containing all characters considered whitespace
lowercase -- a string containing all characters considered lowercase letters
uppercase -- a string containing all characters considered uppercase letters
letters -- a string containing all characters considered letters
digits -- a string containing all characters considered decimal digits
hexdigits -- a string containing all characters considered hexadecimal digits
octdigits -- a string containing all characters considered octal digits
punctuation -- a string containing all characters considered punctuation
printable -- a string containing all characters considered printable`

Modules

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re |  |  |

Classes

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__builtin__.object
  Formatter
  Template

class Formatter(__builtin__.object)

``

Methods defined here:

check_unused_args(self, used_args, args, kwargs)

convert_field(self, value, conversion)

format(self, format_string, *args, **kwargs)

format_field(self, value, format_spec)

get_field(self, field_name, args, kwargs)
  `# given a field_name, find the object it references.
  # field_name: the field being looked up, e.g. "0.name"
  # or "lookup[3]"
  # used_args: a set of which args have been used
  # args, kwargs: as passed in to vformat`

get_value(self, key, args, kwargs)

parse(self, format_string)
  `# returns an iterable that contains tuples of the form:
  # (literal_text, field_name, format_spec, conversion)
  # literal_text can be zero length
  # field_name can be None, in which case there's no
  # object to format and output
  # if field_name is not None, it is looked up, formatted
  # with format_spec and conversion and then used`

vformat(self, format_string, args, kwargs)

Data descriptors defined here:

__dict__
  `dictionary for instance variables (if defined)`

__weakref__
  `list of weak references to the object (if defined)`

class Template(__builtin__.object)
`` | `A string class for supporting $-substitutions.`

Methods defined here:

__init__(self, template)

safe_substitute(self, *args, **kws)

substitute(self, *args, **kws)

Data descriptors defined here:

__dict__
  `dictionary for instance variables (if defined)`

__weakref__
  `list of weak references to the object (if defined)`

Data and other attributes defined here:

__metaclass__ = <class 'string._TemplateMetaclass'>

delimiter = '$'

idpattern = '[_a-z][_a-z0-9]*'

pattern = <_sre.SRE_Pattern object at 0x100267840>

Functions

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atof(s)
  `atof(s) -> float
  Return the floating point number represented by the string s.`

atoi(s, base=10)
  `atoi(s [,base]) -> int
  Return the integer represented by the string s in the given
  base, which defaults to 10. The string s must consist of one
  or more digits, possibly preceded by a sign. If base is 0, it
  is chosen from the leading characters of s, 0 for octal, 0x or
  0X for hexadecimal. If base is 16, a preceding 0x or 0X is
  accepted.`

atol(s, base=10)
  `atol(s [,base]) -> long
  Return the long integer represented by the string s in the
  given base, which defaults to 10. The string s must consist
  of one or more digits, possibly preceded by a sign. If base
  is 0, it is chosen from the leading characters of s, 0 for
  octal, 0x or 0X for hexadecimal. If base is 16, a preceding
  0x or 0X is accepted. A trailing L or l is not accepted,
  unless base is 0.`

capitalize(s)
  `capitalize(s) -> string
  Return a copy of the string s with only its first character
  capitalized.`

capwords(s, sep=None)
  `capwords(s, [sep]) -> string
  Split the argument into words using split, capitalize each
  word using capitalize, and join the capitalized words using
  join. Note that this replaces runs of whitespace characters by
  a single space.`

center(s, width, *args)
  `center(s, width[, fillchar]) -> string
  Return a center version of s, in a field of the specified
  width. padded with spaces as needed. The string is never
  truncated. If specified the fillchar is used instead of spaces.`

count(s, *args)
  `count(s, sub[, start[,end]]) -> int
  Return the number of occurrences of substring sub in string
  s[start:end]. Optional arguments start and end are
  interpreted as in slice notation.`

expandtabs(s, tabsize=8)
  `expandtabs(s [,tabsize]) -> string
  Return a copy of the string s with all tab characters replaced
  by the appropriate number of spaces, depending on the current
  column, and the tabsize (default 8).`

find(s, *args)
  `find(s, sub [,start [,end]]) -> in
  Return the lowest index in s where substring sub is found,
  such that sub is contained within s[start,end]. Optional
  arguments start and end are interpreted as in slice notation.
  Return -1 on failure.`

index(s, *args)
  `index(s, sub [,start [,end]]) -> int
  Like find but raises ValueError when the substring is not found.`

join(words, sep=' ')
  `join(list [,sep]) -> string
  Return a string composed of the words in list, with
  intervening occurrences of sep. The default separator is a
  single space.
  (joinfields and join are synonymous)`

joinfields = join(words, sep=' ')
  `join(list [,sep]) -> string
  Return a string composed of the words in list, with
  intervening occurrences of sep. The default separator is a
  single space.
  (joinfields and join are synonymous)`

ljust(s, width, *args)
  `ljust(s, width[, fillchar]) -> string
  Return a left-justified version of s, in a field of the
  specified width, padded with spaces as needed. The string is
  never truncated. If specified the fillchar is used instead of spaces.`

lower(s)
  `lower(s) -> string
  Return a copy of the string s converted to lowercase.`

lstrip(s, chars=None)
  `lstrip(s [,chars]) -> string
  Return a copy of the string s with leading whitespace removed.
  If chars is given and not None, remove characters in chars instead.`

maketrans(...)
  `maketrans(frm, to) -> string
  Return a translation table (a string of 256 bytes long)
  suitable for use in string.translate. The strings frm and to
  must be of the same length.`

replace(s, old, new, maxsplit=-1)
  `replace (str, old, new[, maxsplit]) -> string
  Return a copy of string str with all occurrences of substring
  old replaced by new. If the optional argument maxsplit is
  given, only the first maxsplit occurrences are replaced.`

rfind(s, *args)
  `rfind(s, sub [,start [,end]]) -> int
  Return the highest index in s where substring sub is found,
  such that sub is contained within s[start,end]. Optional
  arguments start and end are interpreted as in slice notation.
  Return -1 on failure.`

rindex(s, *args)
  `rindex(s, sub [,start [,end]]) -> int
  Like rfind but raises ValueError when the substring is not found.`

rjust(s, width, *args)
  `rjust(s, width[, fillchar]) -> string
  Return a right-justified version of s, in a field of the
  specified width, padded with spaces as needed. The string is
  never truncated. If specified the fillchar is used instead of spaces.`

rsplit(s, sep=None, maxsplit=-1)
  `rsplit(s [,sep [,maxsplit]]) -> list of strings
  Return a list of the words in the string s, using sep as the
  delimiter string, starting at the end of the string and working
  to the front. If maxsplit is given, at most maxsplit splits are
  done. If sep is not specified or is None, any whitespace string
  is a separator.`

rstrip(s, chars=None)
  `rstrip(s [,chars]) -> string
  Return a copy of the string s with trailing whitespace removed.
  If chars is given and not None, remove characters in chars instead.`

split(s, sep=None, maxsplit=-1)
  `split(s [,sep [,maxsplit]]) -> list of strings
  Return a list of the words in the string s, using sep as the
  delimiter string. If maxsplit is given, splits at no more than
  maxsplit places (resulting in at most maxsplit+1 words). If sep
  is not specified or is None, any whitespace string is a separator.
  (split and splitfields are synonymous)`

splitfields = split(s, sep=None, maxsplit=-1)
  `split(s [,sep [,maxsplit]]) -> list of strings
  Return a list of the words in the string s, using sep as the
  delimiter string. If maxsplit is given, splits at no more than
  maxsplit places (resulting in at most maxsplit+1 words). If sep
  is not specified or is None, any whitespace string is a separator.
  (split and splitfields are synonymous)`

strip(s, chars=None)
  `strip(s [,chars]) -> string
  Return a copy of the string s with leading and trailing
  whitespace removed.
  If chars is given and not None, remove characters in chars instead.
  If chars is unicode, S will be converted to unicode before stripping.`

swapcase(s)
  `swapcase(s) -> string
  Return a copy of the string s with upper case characters
  converted to lowercase and vice versa.`

translate(s, table, deletions='')
  `translate(s,table [,deletions]) -> string
  Return a copy of the string s, where all characters occurring
  in the optional argument deletions are removed, and the
  remaining characters have been mapped through the given
  translation table, which must be a string of length 256. The
  deletions argument is not allowed for Unicode strings.`

upper(s)
  `upper(s) -> string
  Return a copy of the string s converted to uppercase.`

zfill(x, width)
  `zfill(x, width) -> string
  Pad a numeric string x with zeros on the left, to fill a field
  of the specified width. The string x is never truncated.`

Data

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ascii_letters = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
ascii_lowercase = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
ascii_uppercase = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
digits = '0123456789'
hexdigits = '0123456789abcdefABCDEF'
letters = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
lowercase = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
octdigits = '01234567'
printable = '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ!"#$%&\'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~ \t\n\r\x0b\x0c'
punctuation = '!"#$%&\'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~'
uppercase = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
whitespace = '\t\n\x0b\x0c\r '