Generic Operating System Services
The modules described in this chapter provide interfaces to operating system features that are available on (almost) all operating systems, such as files and a clock. The interfaces are generally modeled after the Unix or C interfaces, but they are available on most other systems as well. Here’s an overview:
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os— Miscellaneous operating system interfaces -
io— Core tools for working with streams -
time— Time access and conversions -
argparse— Parser for command-line options, arguments and sub-commands getopt— C-style parser for command line options-
logging— Logging facility for Python -
logging.config— Logging configuration -
logging.handlers— Logging handlers getpass— Portable password input-
curses— Terminal handling for character-cell displays -
curses.textpad— Text input widget for curses programs curses.ascii— Utilities for ASCII characters-
curses.panel— A panel stack extension for curses -
platform— Access to underlying platform’s identifying data errno— Standard errno system symbols-
ctypes— A foreign function library for Python- ctypes tutorial
- Loading dynamic link libraries
- Accessing functions from loaded dlls
- Calling functions
- Fundamental data types
- Calling functions, continued
- Calling functions with your own custom data types
- Specifying the required argument types (function prototypes)
- Return types
- Passing pointers (or: passing parameters by reference)
- Structures and unions
- Structure/union alignment and byte order
- Bit fields in structures and unions
- Arrays
- Pointers
- Type conversions
- Incomplete Types
- Callback functions
- Accessing values exported from dlls
- Surprises
- Variable-sized data types
- ctypes reference
- ctypes tutorial
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