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
    • to_unicode()
    • to_bytes()
    • getwriter()
    • to_str()
    • to_utf8()
  • Transformation to XML
    • unicode_to_xml()
    • xml_to_unicode()
    • byte_string_to_xml()
    • xml_to_byte_string()
    • bytes_to_xml()
    • xml_to_bytes()
    • guess_encoding_to_xml()
    • to_xml()
  • Working with exception messages
    • EXCEPTION_CONVERTERS
    • BYTE_EXCEPTION_CONVERTERS
    • exception_to_unicode()
    • exception_to_bytes()
• Format Text for Display
• textual_width()
• textual_width_chop()
• textual_width_fill()
• wrap()
• fill()
• byte_string_textual_width_fill()
• Internal Data
  • _COMBINING
  • _generate_combining_table()
  • _print_combining_table()
  • _interval_bisearch()
  • _ucp_width()
  • _textual_width_le()
• Miscellaneous functions for manipulating text
• byte_string_valid_encoding()
• byte_string_valid_xml()
• guess_encoding()
• html_entities_unescape()
• isbasestring()
• isbytestring()
• isunicodestring()
• process_control_chars()
• str_eq()
• UTF-8
• utf8_text_fill()
• utf8_text_wrap()
• utf8_valid()
• utf8_width()
• utf8_width_chop()
• utf8_width_fill()

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