[BangPypers] FOSS String library in C/C++ that matches Python string functions...

[Vishal]

Hello,

I would like to get a pointer to a stable FOSS String library in C/C++ that
has the same (close enough) functionality that Python provides for strings.

I would like to speed up some of my apps, which do string heavy lifting in
Python, using Cython. But the bottleneck is the stellar string python
functionality that Python provides, and is not available in the string.h
from C library.

Any pointers?

Thanks in advance,
Vishal Sapre