PYTHON

11 Most Useful Built-in Python Modules You Might Not Know Yet

You don’t have to write codes from scratch.

Khelifi Ahmed Aziz
Level Up Coding
Published in
5 min readMay 11, 2021

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When we start a project, we often need the help of some libraries and modules to overcome some problems and accelerate the workflow.

Fortunately, Python has plenty of useful built-in modules, as well as third-party libraries and modules for different use cases. In this article, we’ll look, and study, only some interesting built-in modules, which are very beneficial for your projects.

1. re — Regular expression operations

Regular expressions are used in almost all languages. It is a very powerful tool that allows you to check if the content of a variable has the form of what you expect.

A RegEx, or Regular Expression, is a sequence of characters that forms a search pattern.

We use symbols that have a meaning:

Note: It is possible to impose the number of occurrences with the following syntax:

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