1 .. _binaryservices: 2 3 ******************** 4 Binary Data Services 5 ******************** 6 7 The modules described in this chapter provide some basic services operations 8 for manipulation of binary data. Other operations on binary data, specifically 9 in relation to file formats and network protocols, are described in the 10 relevant sections. 11 12 Some libraries described under :ref:`textservices` also work with either 13 ASCII-compatible binary formats (for example, :mod:`re`) or all binary data 14 (for example, :mod:`difflib`). 15 16 In addition, see the documentation for Python's built-in binary data types in 17 :ref:`binaryseq`. 18 19 .. toctree:: 20 21 struct.rst 22 codecs.rst 23 24
