| .. _binaryservices: | |
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| Binary Data Services | |
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| The modules described in this chapter provide some basic services operations | |
| for manipulation of binary data. Other operations on binary data, specifically | |
| in relation to file formats and network protocols, are described in the | |
| relevant sections. | |
| Some libraries described under :ref:`textservices` also work with either | |
| ASCII-compatible binary formats (for example, :mod:`re`) or all binary data | |
| (for example, :mod:`difflib`). | |
| In addition, see the documentation for Python's built-in binary data types in | |
| :ref:`binaryseq`. | |
| .. toctree:: | |
| struct.rst | |
| codecs.rst | |