Kitchen.text: unicode and utf8 and xml oh my!

The kitchen.text module contains functions that deal with text manipulation.

• Kitchen.text.converters
  • Byte Strings and Unicode in Python2
  • Strategy for Explicit Conversion
    • When to use an alternate strategy
  • Gotchas and how to avoid them
    • str(obj)
    • print
    • Unicode, str, and dict keys
• Functions
  • Unicode and byte str conversion
  • Transformation to XML
  • Working with exception messages
• Format Text for Display
• Internal Data
• Miscellaneous functions for manipulating text
• UTF-8

converters

deals with converting text for different encodings and to and from XML

display

deals with issues with printing text to a screen

misc

is a catchall for text manipulation functions that don’t seem to fit elsewhere

utf8

contains deprecated functions to manipulate utf8 byte strings