Close #4966: revamp the sequence docs in order to better explain the state of modern Python
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+.. _binaryservices:
+
+********************
+Binary Data Services
+********************
+
+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
+