jaraco.text
Module for text manipulation
Decision gist · record as of 2026-08-14
Yes. jaraco.text is a stable, actively maintained utility library with low install friction, no security vulnerabilities, and a permissive license. Install it if you need a collection of common text-processing helpers and are comfortable with a Python 3.10+ requirement. It is not a specialized tool—evaluate whether its specific functions match your use case rather than installing it as a general-purpose text library.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires Python 3.10 or later.
- Low friction installation with a pure-Python wheel.
- Actively maintained as of 2026-07-12 with recent releases.
License · maintenance · safety
MIT (permissive) — MIT license (permissive) allows use in commercial and proprietary projects with minimal restrictions—retain the license notice and you are free to modify and distribute.
last release 2026-07-12 (33 days) · last repo commit 2026-07-12 · 18 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 2,452,968 downloads/mo, #3,057 on PyPI
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Verify before relying
pip install jaraco.text
from jaraco.text import trim
result = trim(' hello world ')- Whether the text processing functions handle Unicode and non-ASCII text correctly.
- Performance characteristics for large text inputs or bulk operations.
- Availability and completeness of the linked documentation.
What it is and what it does
jaraco.text is a collection of utility functions for everyday text manipulation tasks. It handles operations like wrapping, substitution, trimming whitespace, removing prefixes and suffixes, managing indentation, processing comments, and performing case-insensitive comparisons. The package also includes command-line tools for specialized tasks—for example, converting between keyboard layouts (QWERTY to Dvorak) and reporting newline characters in files.
The package is designed as a grab-bag of helpers rather than a focused framework. It depends on jaraco.context, jaraco.functools, more_itertools, and typer-slim, and targets Python 3.10+. It is actively maintained and carries no known security vulnerabilities. The MIT license permits both commercial and open-source use.
Use it for
- Normalize and clean user-supplied text input in web forms or data pipelines.
- Convert between keyboard layouts programmatically for accessibility or input remapping.
- Inspect and report on newline conventions in text files for cross-platform compatibility.
- Perform case-insensitive string matching and comparison in configuration or search logic.
- Handle text indentation and line continuation in code generation or template rendering.
- Parse and process comment-heavy text formats or configuration files.
Worth the install?
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Yes.
jaraco.text is a stable, actively maintained utility library with low install friction, no security vulnerabilities, and a permissive license. Install it if you need a collection of common text-processing helpers and are comfortable with a Python 3.10+ requirement. It is not a specialized tool—evaluate whether its specific functions match your use case rather than installing it as a general-purpose text library.
Install
jaraco-text on PyPI
Before you install
Low friction installation with a pure-Python wheel. Actively maintained as of 2026-07-12 with recent releases. Depends on four runtime packages (jaraco.context, jaraco.functools, more_itertools, typer-slim), all of which are established utilities.
Requires Python 3.10 or later.
License in practice
MIT license (permissive) allows use in commercial and proprietary projects with minimal restrictions—retain the license notice and you are free to modify and distribute.
Quickstart
pip install jaraco.text
from jaraco.text import trim
result = trim(' hello world ')Verify before relying
- Whether the text processing functions handle Unicode and non-ASCII text correctly.
- Performance characteristics for large text inputs or bulk operations.
- Availability and completeness of the linked documentation.
Package facts
| License | MIT permissive |
| Python support | Supports the current Python release >=3.10 |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 4 packagesjaraco.contextjaraco.functoolsmore_itertoolstyper-slim |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained 33 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 2,452,968 / month, #3,057 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
| Classifiers | Development Status :: 5 - Production/StableIntended Audience :: DevelopersProgramming Language :: Python :: 3Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only |
Evidence: jaraco_text-4.3.0-py3-none-any.whl
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