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| author | Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> | 2012-08-20 07:14:07 (GMT) |
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| committer | Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> | 2012-08-20 07:14:07 (GMT) |
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Close #4966: revamp the sequence docs in order to better explain the state of modern Python
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diff --git a/Doc/library/binary.rst b/Doc/library/binary.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..51fbdc1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Doc/library/binary.rst @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +.. _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 + |