This module defines some constants useful for checking character
classes and some useful string functions.  See the module
re for string functions based on regular
expressions.
The constants defined in this module are are:
- digits
- 
  The string '0123456789'.
- hexdigits
- 
  The string '0123456789abcdefABCDEF'.
- letters
- 
  The concatenation of the strings lowercase and
  uppercase described below.
- lowercase
- 
  A string containing all the characters that are considered lowercase
  letters.  On most systems this is the string
  'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'.  Do not change its definition --
  the effect on the routines upper() and
  swapcase() is undefined.
- octdigits
- 
  The string '01234567'.
- punctuation
- 
  String of ASCII characters which are considered punctuation
  characters in the "C" locale.
- printable
- 
  String of characters which are considered printable.  This is a
  combination of digits, letters,
  punctuation, and whitespace.
- uppercase
- 
  A string containing all the characters that are considered uppercase
  letters.  On most systems this is the string
  'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'.  Do not change its definition --
  the effect on the routines lower() and
  swapcase() is undefined.
- whitespace
- 
  A string containing all characters that are considered whitespace.
  On most systems this includes the characters space, tab, linefeed,
  return, formfeed, and vertical tab.  Do not change its definition --
  the effect on the routines strip() and split()
  is undefined.
Many of the functions provided by this module are also defined as
methods of string and Unicode objects; see ``String Methods'' (section
) for more information on those.
The functions defined in this module are:
- atof (s)
- 
  Obsoleto a partir de la versión 2.0.
Use the float() built-in function.
  Convert a string to a floating point number.  The string must have
  the standard syntax for a floating point literal in Python,
  optionally preceded by a sign ("+" or "-").  Note that
  this behaves identical to the built-in function
  float() when passed a string.
 
Note: When passing in a string, values for NaN
  and Infinity may be returned, depending on the
  underlying C library.  The specific set of strings accepted which
  cause these values to be returned depends entirely on the C library
  and is known to vary.
 
- atoi (s[, base])
- 
  Obsoleto a partir de la versión 2.0.
Use the int() built-in function.
  Convert string s to an integer in the given base.  The
  string must consist of one or more digits, optionally preceded by a
  sign ("+" or "-").  The base defaults to 10.  If it
  is 0, a default base is chosen depending on the leading characters
  of the string (after stripping the sign): "0x" or "0X"  means 16, "0" means 8, anything else means 10.  If base
  is 16, a leading "0x" or "0X" is always accepted, though
  not required.  This behaves identically to the built-in function
  int() when passed a string.  (Also note: for a more
  flexible interpretation of numeric literals, use the built-in
  function eval().)
 
- atol (s[, base])
- 
  Obsoleto a partir de la versión 2.0.
Use the long() built-in function.
  Convert string s to a long integer in the given base.
  The string must consist of one or more digits, optionally preceded
  by a sign ("+" or "-").  The base argument has the
  same meaning as for atoi().  A trailing "l" or
  "L" is not allowed, except if the base is 0.  Note that when
  invoked without base or with base set to 10, this
  behaves identical to the built-in function
  long() when passed a string.
 
- capitalize (word)
- 
  Capitalize the first character of the argument.
- capwords (s)
- 
  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, and removes leading and
  trailing whitespace.
- expandtabs (s[, tabsize])
- 
  Expand tabs in a string, i.e. replace them by one or more spaces,
  depending on the current column and the given tab size.  The column
  number is reset to zero after each newline occurring in the string.
  This doesn't understand other non-printing characters or escape
  sequences.  The tab size defaults to 8.
- find (s, sub[, start[,end]])
- 
  Return the lowest index in s where the substring sub is
  found such that sub is wholly contained in
  s[start:end].  Return-1on failure.
  Defaults for start and end and interpretation of
  negative values is the same as for slices.
- rfind (s, sub[, start[, end]])
- 
  Like find() but find the highest index.
- index (s, sub[, start[, end]])
- 
  Like find() but raise ValueError when the
  substring is not found.
- rindex (s, sub[, start[, end]])
- 
  Like rfind() but raise ValueError when the
  substring is not found.
- count (s, sub[, start[, end]])
- 
  Return the number of (non-overlapping) occurrences of substring
  sub in string s[start:end].
  Defaults for start and end and interpretation of
  negative values are the same as for slices.
- lower (s)
- 
  Return a copy of s, but with upper case letters converted to
  lower case.
- maketrans (from, to)
- 
  Return a translation table suitable for passing to
  translate() or regex.compile(), that will map
  each character in from into the character at the same position
  in to; from and to must have the same length.
Warning: don't use strings derived from lowercase
  and uppercase as arguments; in some locales, these don't have
  the same length.  For case conversions, always use
  lower() and upper().
 
- split (s[, sep[, maxsplit]])
- 
  Return a list of the words of the string s.  If the optional
  second argument sep is absent or None, the words are
  separated by arbitrary strings of whitespace characters (space, tab, 
  newline, return, formfeed).  If the second argument sep is
  present and notNone, it specifies a string to be used as the 
  word separator.  The returned list will then have one more item
  than the number of non-overlapping occurrences of the separator in
  the string.  The optional third argument maxsplit defaults to
  0.  If it is nonzero, at most maxsplit number of splits occur,
  and the remainder of the string is returned as the final element of
  the list (thus, the list will have at mostmaxsplit+1elements).
- splitfields (s[, sep[, maxsplit]])
- 
  This function behaves identically to split().  (In the
  past, split() was only used with one argument, while
  splitfields() was only used with two arguments.)
- join (words[, sep])
- 
  Concatenate a list or tuple of words with intervening occurrences of 
  sep.  The default value for sep is a single space
  character.  It is always true that
  "string.join(string.split(s, sep), sep)"  equals s.
- joinfields (words[, sep])
- 
  This function behaves identical to join().  (In the past, 
  join() was only used with one argument, while
  joinfields() was only used with two arguments.)
- lstrip (s)
- 
  Return a copy of s but without leading whitespace characters.
- rstrip (s)
- 
  Return a copy of s but without trailing whitespace
  characters.
- strip (s)
- 
  Return a copy of s without leading or trailing whitespace.
- swapcase (s)
- 
  Return a copy of s, but with lower case letters
  converted to upper case and vice versa.
- translate (s, table[, deletechars])
- 
  Delete all characters from s that are in deletechars (if 
  present), and then translate the characters using table, which 
  must be a 256-character string giving the translation for each
  character value, indexed by its ordinal.  
- upper (s)
- 
  Return a copy of s, but with lower case letters converted to
  upper case.
- ljust (s, width)
- 
- rjust (s, width)
- 
- center (s, width)
- 
  These functions respectively left-justify, right-justify and center
  a string in a field of given width.  They return a string that is at
  least width characters wide, created by padding the string
  s with spaces until the given width on the right, left or both
  sides.  The string is never truncated.
- zfill (s, width)
- 
  Pad a numeric string on the left with zero digits until the given
  width is reached.  Strings starting with a sign are handled
  correctly.
- replace (str, old, new[, maxsplit])
- 
  Return a copy of string str with all occurrences of substring
  old replaced by new.  If the optional argument
  maxsplit is given, the first maxsplit occurrences are
  replaced.
This module is implemented in Python.  Much of its functionality has
been reimplemented in the built-in module
strop.  However, you
should never import the latter module directly.  When
string discovers that strop exists, it transparently
replaces parts of itself with the implementation from strop.
After initialization, there is no overhead in using
string instead of strop.
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