Close #4966: revamp the sequence docs in order to better explain the state of modern Python
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+.. _stringservices:
+.. _textservices:
+
+************************
+Text Processing Services
+************************
+
+The modules described in this chapter provide a wide range of string
+manipulation operations and other text processing services.
+
+The :mod:`codecs` module described under :ref:`binaryservices` is also
+highly relevant to text processing. In addition, see the documentation for
+Python's built-in string type in :ref:`textseq`.
+
+
+.. toctree::
+
+ string.rst
+ re.rst
+ difflib.rst
+ textwrap.rst
+ unicodedata.rst
+ stringprep.rst
+