---
id: jaraco-text
version: "4.3.0"
license: MIT
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# jaraco.text — Module for text manipulation

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 2.5M/mo

## 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?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Provides utility functions for common text operations including wrapping, substitution, trimming, stripping, prefix/suffix removal, indentation, and case-insensitive comparison.

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

pip install jaraco-text
uv add jaraco-text
poetry add jaraco-text

## Installing jaraco.text

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.

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  ')

Requires Python 3.10 or later.

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_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 2.5M/month (top 5,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

text manipulation utilities, string processing helpers, text wrapping and trimming, prefix suffix removal, text formatting utilities, case insensitive comparison, line continuation handling, comment processing, text-utilities, string-processing

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