17db96d56Sopenharmony_ci.. _binaryservices: 27db96d56Sopenharmony_ci 37db96d56Sopenharmony_ci******************** 47db96d56Sopenharmony_ciBinary Data Services 57db96d56Sopenharmony_ci******************** 67db96d56Sopenharmony_ci 77db96d56Sopenharmony_ciThe modules described in this chapter provide some basic services operations 87db96d56Sopenharmony_cifor manipulation of binary data. Other operations on binary data, specifically 97db96d56Sopenharmony_ciin relation to file formats and network protocols, are described in the 107db96d56Sopenharmony_cirelevant sections. 117db96d56Sopenharmony_ci 127db96d56Sopenharmony_ciSome libraries described under :ref:`textservices` also work with either 137db96d56Sopenharmony_ciASCII-compatible binary formats (for example, :mod:`re`) or all binary data 147db96d56Sopenharmony_ci(for example, :mod:`difflib`). 157db96d56Sopenharmony_ci 167db96d56Sopenharmony_ciIn addition, see the documentation for Python's built-in binary data types in 177db96d56Sopenharmony_ci:ref:`binaryseq`. 187db96d56Sopenharmony_ci 197db96d56Sopenharmony_ci.. toctree:: 207db96d56Sopenharmony_ci 217db96d56Sopenharmony_ci struct.rst 227db96d56Sopenharmony_ci codecs.rst 237db96d56Sopenharmony_ci 24