Chapter 1. Text

Introduction

Recipe 1.1.  Processing a String One Character at a Time

Recipe 1.2.  Converting Between Characters and Numeric Codes

Recipe 1.3.  Testing Whether an Object Is String-like

Recipe 1.4.  Aligning Strings

Recipe 1.5.  Trimming Space from the Ends of a String

Recipe 1.6.  Combining Strings

Recipe 1.7.  Reversing a String by Words or Characters

Recipe 1.8.  Checking Whether a String Contains a Set of Characters

Recipe 1.9.  Simplifying Usage of Strings' translate Method

Recipe 1.10.  Filtering a String for a Set of Characters

Recipe 1.11.  Checking Whether a String Is Text or Binary

Recipe 1.12.  Controlling Case

Recipe 1.13.  Accessing Substrings

Recipe 1.14.  Changing the Indentation of a Multiline String

Recipe 1.15.  Expanding and Compressing Tabs

Recipe 1.16.  Interpolating Variables in a String

Recipe 1.17.  Interpolating Variables in a Stringin Python 2.4

Recipe 1.18.  Replacing Multiple Patterns in a Single Pass

Recipe 1.19.  Checking a String for Any of Multiple Endings

Recipe 1.20.  Handling International Text with Unicode

Recipe 1.21.  Converting Between Unicode and Plain Strings

Recipe 1.22.  Printing Unicode Charactersto Standard Output

Recipe 1.23.  Encoding Unicode Data for XML and HTML

Recipe 1.24.  Making Some Strings Case-Insensitive

Recipe 1.25.  Converting HTML Documents to Texton a Unix Terminal