Python Module Index
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__builtin__ |
The module that provides the built-in namespace. | |
__future__ |
Future statement definitions | |
__main__ |
The environment where the top-level script is run. | |
_winreg (Windows) |
Routines and objects for manipulating the Windows registry. | |
| a | ||
abc |
Abstract base classes according to PEP 3119. | |
aepack (Mac) |
Deprecated: Conversion between Python variables and AppleEvent data containers. | |
aetools (Mac) |
Deprecated: Basic support for sending Apple Events | |
aetypes (Mac) |
Deprecated: Python representation of the Apple Event Object Model. | |
aifc |
Read and write audio files in AIFF or AIFC format. | |
al (IRIX) |
Deprecated: Audio functions on the SGI. | |
AL (IRIX) |
Deprecated: Constants used with the al module. | |
anydbm |
Generic interface to DBM-style database modules. | |
applesingle (Mac) |
Deprecated: Rudimentary decoder for AppleSingle format files. | |
argparse |
Command-line option and argument parsing library. | |
array |
Space efficient arrays of uniformly typed numeric values. | |
ast |
Abstract Syntax Tree classes and manipulation. | |
asynchat |
Support for asynchronous command/response protocols. | |
asyncore |
A base class for developing asynchronous socket handling services. | |
atexit |
Register and execute cleanup functions. | |
audioop |
Manipulate raw audio data. | |
autoGIL (Mac) |
Deprecated: Global Interpreter Lock handling in event loops. | |
| b | ||
base64 |
RFC 3548: Base16, Base32, Base64 Data Encodings | |
BaseHTTPServer |
Basic HTTP server (base class for SimpleHTTPServer and CGIHTTPServer). | |
Bastion |
Deprecated: Providing restricted access to objects. | |
bdb |
Debugger framework. | |
binascii |
Tools for converting between binary and various ASCII-encoded binary representations. | |
binhex |
Encode and decode files in binhex4 format. | |
bisect |
Array bisection algorithms for binary searching. | |
bsddb |
Interface to Berkeley DB database library | |
buildtools (Mac) |
Deprecated: Helper module for BuildApplet, BuildApplication and macfreeze. | |
bz2 |
Interface to compression and decompression routines compatible with bzip2. | |
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calendar |
Functions for working with calendars, including some emulation of the Unix cal program. | |
Carbon |
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Carbon.AE (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to the Apple Events toolbox. | |
Carbon.AH (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to the Apple Help manager. | |
Carbon.App (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to the Appearance Manager. | |
Carbon.Appearance (Mac) |
Deprecated: Constant definitions for the interface to the Appearance Manager. | |
Carbon.CarbonEvents (Mac) |
Deprecated: Constants for the interface to the Carbon Event Manager. | |
Carbon.CarbonEvt (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to the Carbon Event Manager. | |
Carbon.CF (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to the Core Foundation. | |
Carbon.CG (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to Core Graphics. | |
Carbon.Cm (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to the Component Manager. | |
Carbon.Components (Mac) |
Deprecated: Constants for the interface to the Component Manager. | |
Carbon.ControlAccessor (Mac) |
Deprecated: Accessor functions for the interface to the Control Manager. | |
Carbon.Controls (Mac) |
Deprecated: Constants for the interface to the Control Manager. | |
Carbon.CoreFounation (Mac) |
Deprecated: Constants for the interface to CoreFoundation. | |
Carbon.CoreGraphics (Mac) |
Deprecated: Constants for the interface to CoreGraphics. | |
Carbon.Ctl (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to the Control Manager. | |
Carbon.Dialogs (Mac) |
Deprecated: Constants for the interface to the Dialog Manager. | |
Carbon.Dlg (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to the Dialog Manager. | |
Carbon.Drag (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to the Drag and Drop Manager. | |
Carbon.Dragconst (Mac) |
Deprecated: Constants for the interface to the Drag and Drop Manager. | |
Carbon.Events (Mac) |
Deprecated: Constants for the interface to the classic Event Manager. | |
Carbon.Evt (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to the classic Event Manager. | |
Carbon.File (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to the File Manager. | |
Carbon.Files (Mac) |
Deprecated: Constants for the interface to the File Manager. | |
Carbon.Fm (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to the Font Manager. | |
Carbon.Folder (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to the Folder Manager. | |
Carbon.Folders (Mac) |
Deprecated: Constants for the interface to the Folder Manager. | |
Carbon.Fonts (Mac) |
Deprecated: Constants for the interface to the Font Manager. | |
Carbon.Help (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to the Carbon Help Manager. | |
Carbon.IBCarbon (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to the Carbon InterfaceBuilder support libraries. | |
Carbon.IBCarbonRuntime (Mac) |
Deprecated: Constants for the interface to the Carbon InterfaceBuilder support libraries. | |
Carbon.Icns (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to the Carbon Icon Manager | |
Carbon.Icons (Mac) |
Deprecated: Constants for the interface to the Carbon Icon Manager | |
Carbon.Launch (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to the Carbon Launch Services. | |
Carbon.LaunchServices (Mac) |
Deprecated: Constants for the interface to the Carbon Launch Services. | |
Carbon.List (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to the List Manager. | |
Carbon.Lists (Mac) |
Deprecated: Constants for the interface to the List Manager. | |
Carbon.MacHelp (Mac) |
Deprecated: Constants for the interface to the Carbon Help Manager. | |
Carbon.MediaDescr (Mac) |
Deprecated: Parsers and generators for Quicktime Media descriptors | |
Carbon.Menu (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to the Menu Manager. | |
Carbon.Menus (Mac) |
Deprecated: Constants for the interface to the Menu Manager. | |
Carbon.Mlte (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to the MultiLingual Text Editor. | |
Carbon.OSA (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to the Carbon OSA Library. | |
Carbon.OSAconst (Mac) |
Deprecated: Constants for the interface to the Carbon OSA Library. | |
Carbon.Qd (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to the QuickDraw toolbox. | |
Carbon.Qdoffs (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to the QuickDraw Offscreen APIs. | |
Carbon.QDOffscreen (Mac) |
Deprecated: Constants for the interface to the QuickDraw Offscreen APIs. | |
Carbon.Qt (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to the QuickTime toolbox. | |
Carbon.QuickDraw (Mac) |
Deprecated: Constants for the interface to the QuickDraw toolbox. | |
Carbon.QuickTime (Mac) |
Deprecated: Constants for the interface to the QuickTime toolbox. | |
Carbon.Res (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to the Resource Manager and Handles. | |
Carbon.Resources (Mac) |
Deprecated: Constants for the interface to the Resource Manager and Handles. | |
Carbon.Scrap (Mac) |
Deprecated: The Scrap Manager provides basic services for implementing cut & paste and clipboard operations. | |
Carbon.Snd (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to the Sound Manager. | |
Carbon.Sound (Mac) |
Deprecated: Constants for the interface to the Sound Manager. | |
Carbon.TE (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to TextEdit. | |
Carbon.TextEdit (Mac) |
Deprecated: Constants for the interface to TextEdit. | |
Carbon.Win (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to the Window Manager. | |
Carbon.Windows (Mac) |
Deprecated: Constants for the interface to the Window Manager. | |
cd (IRIX) |
Deprecated: Interface to the CD-ROM on Silicon Graphics systems. | |
cfmfile (Mac) |
Deprecated: Code Fragment Resource module. | |
cgi |
Helpers for running Python scripts via the Common Gateway Interface. | |
CGIHTTPServer |
This module provides a request handler for HTTP servers which can run CGI scripts. | |
cgitb |
Configurable traceback handler for CGI scripts. | |
chunk |
Module to read IFF chunks. | |
cmath |
Mathematical functions for complex numbers. | |
cmd |
Build line-oriented command interpreters. | |
code |
Facilities to implement read-eval-print loops. | |
codecs |
Encode and decode data and streams. | |
codeop |
Compile (possibly incomplete) Python code. | |
collections |
High-performance datatypes | |
ColorPicker (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to the standard color selection dialog. | |
colorsys |
Conversion functions between RGB and other color systems. | |
commands (Unix) |
Deprecated: Utility functions for running external commands. | |
compileall |
Tools for byte-compiling all Python source files in a directory tree. | |
compiler |
Deprecated: Python code compiler written in Python. | |
compiler.ast |
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compiler.visitor |
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ConfigParser |
Configuration file parser. | |
contextlib |
Utilities for with-statement contexts. | |
Cookie |
Support for HTTP state management (cookies). | |
cookielib |
Classes for automatic handling of HTTP cookies. | |
copy |
Shallow and deep copy operations. | |
copy_reg |
Register pickle support functions. | |
cPickle |
Faster version of pickle, but not subclassable. | |
cProfile |
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crypt (Unix) |
The crypt() function used to check Unix passwords. | |
cStringIO |
Faster version of StringIO, but not subclassable. | |
csv |
Write and read tabular data to and from delimited files. | |
ctypes |
A foreign function library for Python. | |
curses (Unix) |
An interface to the curses library, providing portable terminal handling. | |
curses.ascii |
Constants and set-membership functions for ASCII characters. | |
curses.panel |
A panel stack extension that adds depth to curses windows. | |
curses.textpad |
Emacs-like input editing in a curses window. | |
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datetime |
Basic date and time types. | |
dbhash |
DBM-style interface to the BSD database library. | |
dbm (Unix) |
The standard "database" interface, based on ndbm. | |
decimal |
Implementation of the General Decimal Arithmetic Specification. | |
DEVICE (IRIX) |
Deprecated: Constants used with the gl module. | |
difflib |
Helpers for computing differences between objects. | |
dircache |
Deprecated: Return directory listing, with cache mechanism. | |
dis |
Disassembler for Python bytecode. | |
distutils |
Support for building and installing Python modules into an existing Python installation. | |
distutils.archive_util |
Utility functions for creating archive files (tarballs, zip files, ...) | |
distutils.bcppcompiler |
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distutils.ccompiler |
Abstract CCompiler class | |
distutils.cmd |
This module provides the abstract base class Command. This class is subclassed by the modules in the distutils.command subpackage. | |
distutils.command |
This subpackage contains one module for each standard Distutils command. | |
distutils.command.bdist |
Build a binary installer for a package | |
distutils.command.bdist_dumb |
Build a "dumb" installer - a simple archive of files | |
distutils.command.bdist_msi |
Build a binary distribution as a Windows MSI file | |
distutils.command.bdist_packager |
Abstract base class for packagers | |
distutils.command.bdist_rpm |
Build a binary distribution as a Redhat RPM and SRPM | |
distutils.command.bdist_wininst |
Build a Windows installer | |
distutils.command.build |
Build all files of a package | |
distutils.command.build_clib |
Build any C libraries in a package | |
distutils.command.build_ext |
Build any extensions in a package | |
distutils.command.build_py |
Build the .py/.pyc files of a package | |
distutils.command.build_scripts |
Build the scripts of a package | |
distutils.command.check |
Check the metadata of a package | |
distutils.command.clean |
Clean a package build area | |
distutils.command.config |
Perform package configuration | |
distutils.command.install |
Install a package | |
distutils.command.install_data |
Install data files from a package | |
distutils.command.install_headers |
Install C/C++ header files from a package | |
distutils.command.install_lib |
Install library files from a package | |
distutils.command.install_scripts |
Install script files from a package | |
distutils.command.register |
Register a module with the Python Package Index | |
distutils.command.sdist |
Build a source distribution | |
distutils.core |
The core Distutils functionality | |
distutils.cygwinccompiler |
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distutils.debug |
Provides the debug flag for distutils | |
distutils.dep_util |
Utility functions for simple dependency checking | |
distutils.dir_util |
Utility functions for operating on directories and directory trees | |
distutils.dist |
Provides the Distribution class, which represents the module distribution being built/installed/distributed | |
distutils.emxccompiler |
OS/2 EMX Compiler support | |
distutils.errors |
Provides standard distutils exceptions | |
distutils.extension |
Provides the Extension class, used to describe C/C++ extension modules in setup scripts | |
distutils.fancy_getopt |
Additional getopt functionality | |
distutils.file_util |
Utility functions for operating on single files | |
distutils.filelist |
The FileList class, used for poking about the file system and building lists of files. | |
distutils.log |
A simple logging mechanism, 282-style | |
distutils.msvccompiler |
Microsoft Compiler | |
distutils.spawn |
Provides the spawn() function | |
distutils.sysconfig |
Low-level access to configuration information of the Python interpreter. | |
distutils.text_file |
provides the TextFile class, a simple interface to text files | |
distutils.unixccompiler |
UNIX C Compiler | |
distutils.util |
Miscellaneous other utility functions | |
distutils.version |
implements classes that represent module version numbers. | |
dl (Unix) |
Deprecated: Call C functions in shared objects. | |
doctest |
Test pieces of code within docstrings. | |
DocXMLRPCServer |
Self-documenting XML-RPC server implementation. | |
dumbdbm |
Portable implementation of the simple DBM interface. | |
dummy_thread |
Drop-in replacement for the thread module. | |
dummy_threading |
Drop-in replacement for the threading module. | |
| e | ||
EasyDialogs (Mac) |
Deprecated: Basic Macintosh dialogs. | |
email |
Package supporting the parsing, manipulating, and generating email messages, including MIME documents. | |
email.charset |
Character Sets | |
email.encoders |
Encoders for email message payloads. | |
email.errors |
The exception classes used by the email package. | |
email.generator |
Generate flat text email messages from a message structure. | |
email.header |
Representing non-ASCII headers | |
email.iterators |
Iterate over a message object tree. | |
email.message |
The base class representing email messages. | |
email.mime |
Build MIME messages. | |
email.parser |
Parse flat text email messages to produce a message object structure. | |
email.utils |
Miscellaneous email package utilities. | |
encodings |
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encodings.idna |
Internationalized Domain Names implementation | |
encodings.utf_8_sig |
UTF-8 codec with BOM signature | |
ensurepip |
Bootstrapping the ``pip`` installer into an existing Python installation or virtual environment. | |
errno |
Standard errno system symbols. | |
exceptions |
Standard exception classes. | |
| f | ||
fcntl (Unix) |
The fcntl() and ioctl() system calls. | |
filecmp |
Compare files efficiently. | |
fileinput |
Loop over standard input or a list of files. | |
findertools (Mac) |
Wrappers around the finder's Apple Events interface. | |
fl (IRIX) |
Deprecated: FORMS library for applications with graphical user interfaces. | |
FL (IRIX) |
Deprecated: Constants used with the fl module. | |
flp (IRIX) |
Deprecated: Functions for loading stored FORMS designs. | |
fm (IRIX) |
Deprecated: Font Manager interface for SGI workstations. | |
fnmatch |
Unix shell style filename pattern matching. | |
formatter |
Generic output formatter and device interface. | |
fpectl (Unix) |
Provide control for floating point exception handling. | |
fpformat |
Deprecated: General floating point formatting functions. | |
fractions |
Rational numbers. | |
FrameWork (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interactive application framework. | |
ftplib |
FTP protocol client (requires sockets). | |
functools |
Higher-order functions and operations on callable objects. | |
future_builtins |
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gc |
Interface to the cycle-detecting garbage collector. | |
gdbm (Unix) |
GNU's reinterpretation of dbm. | |
gensuitemodule (Mac) |
Create a stub package from an OSA dictionary | |
getopt |
Portable parser for command line options; support both short and long option names. | |
getpass |
Portable reading of passwords and retrieval of the userid. | |
gettext |
Multilingual internationalization services. | |
gl (IRIX) |
Deprecated: Functions from the Silicon Graphics Graphics Library. | |
GL (IRIX) |
Deprecated: Constants used with the gl module. | |
glob |
Unix shell style pathname pattern expansion. | |
grp (Unix) |
The group database (getgrnam() and friends). | |
gzip |
Interfaces for gzip compression and decompression using file objects. | |
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hashlib |
Secure hash and message digest algorithms. | |
heapq |
Heap queue algorithm (a.k.a. priority queue). | |
hmac |
Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication (HMAC) implementation | |
hotshot |
High performance logging profiler, mostly written in C. | |
hotshot.stats |
Statistical analysis for Hotshot | |
htmlentitydefs |
Definitions of HTML general entities. | |
htmllib |
Deprecated: A parser for HTML documents. | |
HTMLParser |
A simple parser that can handle HTML and XHTML. | |
httplib |
HTTP and HTTPS protocol client (requires sockets). | |
| i | ||
ic (Mac) |
Deprecated: Access to the Mac OS X Internet Config. | |
icopen (Mac) |
Deprecated: Internet Config replacement for open(). | |
imageop |
Deprecated: Manipulate raw image data. | |
imaplib |
IMAP4 protocol client (requires sockets). | |
imgfile (IRIX) |
Deprecated: Support for SGI imglib files. | |
imghdr |
Determine the type of image contained in a file or byte stream. | |
imp |
Access the implementation of the import statement. | |
importlib |
Convenience wrappers for __import__ | |
imputil |
Deprecated: Manage and augment the import process. | |
inspect |
Extract information and source code from live objects. | |
io |
Core tools for working with streams. | |
itertools |
Functions creating iterators for efficient looping. | |
| j | ||
jpeg (IRIX) |
Deprecated: Read and write image files in compressed JPEG format. | |
json |
Encode and decode the JSON format. | |
| k | ||
keyword |
Test whether a string is a keyword in Python. | |
| l | ||
lib2to3 |
the 2to3 library | |
linecache |
This module provides random access to individual lines from text files. | |
locale |
Internationalization services. | |
logging |
Flexible event logging system for applications. | |
logging.config |
Configuration of the logging module. | |
logging.handlers |
Handlers for the logging module. | |
| m | ||
macerrors (Mac) |
Deprecated: Constant definitions for many Mac OS error codes. | |
MacOS (Mac) |
Deprecated: Access to Mac OS-specific interpreter features. | |
macostools (Mac) |
Deprecated: Convenience routines for file manipulation. | |
macpath |
Mac OS 9 path manipulation functions. | |
macresource (Mac) |
Deprecated: Locate script resources. | |
mailbox |
Manipulate mailboxes in various formats | |
mailcap |
Mailcap file handling. | |
marshal |
Convert Python objects to streams of bytes and back (with different constraints). | |
math |
Mathematical functions (sin() etc.). | |
md5 |
Deprecated: RSA's MD5 message digest algorithm. | |
mhlib |
Deprecated: Manipulate MH mailboxes from Python. | |
mimetools |
Deprecated: Tools for parsing MIME-style message bodies. | |
mimetypes |
Mapping of filename extensions to MIME types. | |
MimeWriter |
Deprecated: Write MIME format files. | |
mimify |
Deprecated: Mimification and unmimification of mail messages. | |
MiniAEFrame (Mac) |
Support to act as an Open Scripting Architecture (OSA) server ("Apple Events"). | |
mmap |
Interface to memory-mapped files for Unix and Windows. | |
modulefinder |
Find modules used by a script. | |
msilib (Windows) |
Creation of Microsoft Installer files, and CAB files. | |
msvcrt (Windows) |
Miscellaneous useful routines from the MS VC++ runtime. | |
multifile |
Deprecated: Support for reading files which contain distinct parts, such as some MIME data. | |
multiprocessing |
Process-based "threading" interface. | |
multiprocessing.connection |
API for dealing with sockets. | |
multiprocessing.dummy |
Dumb wrapper around threading. | |
multiprocessing.managers |
Share data between process with shared objects. | |
multiprocessing.pool |
Create pools of processes. | |
multiprocessing.sharedctypes |
Allocate ctypes objects from shared memory. | |
mutex |
Deprecated: Lock and queue for mutual exclusion. | |
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Nav (Mac) |
Deprecated: Interface to Navigation Services. | |
netrc |
Loading of .netrc files. | |
new |
Deprecated: Interface to the creation of runtime implementation objects. | |
nis (Unix) |
Interface to Sun's NIS (Yellow Pages) library. | |
nntplib |
NNTP protocol client (requires sockets). | |
numbers |
Numeric abstract base classes (Complex, Real, Integral, etc.). | |
| o | ||
operator |
Functions corresponding to the standard operators. | |
optparse |
Deprecated: Command-line option parsing library. | |
os |
Miscellaneous operating system interfaces. | |
os.path |
Operations on pathnames. | |
ossaudiodev (Linux, FreeBSD) |
Access to OSS-compatible audio devices. | |
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parser |
Access parse trees for Python source code. | |
pdb |
The Python debugger for interactive interpreters. | |
pickle |
Convert Python objects to streams of bytes and back. | |
pickletools |
Contains extensive comments about the pickle protocols and pickle-machine opcodes, as well as some useful functions. | |
pipes (Unix) |
A Python interface to Unix shell pipelines. | |
PixMapWrapper (Mac) |
Deprecated: Wrapper for PixMap objects. | |
pkgutil |
Utilities for the import system. | |
platform |
Retrieves as much platform identifying data as possible. | |
plistlib |
Generate and parse Mac OS X plist files. | |
popen2 |
Deprecated: Subprocesses with accessible standard I/O streams. | |
poplib |
POP3 protocol client (requires sockets). | |
posix (Unix) |
The most common POSIX system calls (normally used via module os). | |
posixfile (Unix) |
Deprecated: A file-like object with support for locking. | |
pprint |
Data pretty printer. | |
profile |
Python source profiler. | |
pstats |
Statistics object for use with the profiler. | |
pty (Linux) |
Pseudo-Terminal Handling for Linux. | |
pwd (Unix) |
The password database (getpwnam() and friends). | |
py_compile |
Generate byte-code files from Python source files. | |
pyclbr |
Supports information extraction for a Python class browser. | |
pydoc |
Documentation generator and online help system. | |
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Queue |
A synchronized queue class. | |
quopri |
Encode and decode files using the MIME quoted-printable encoding. | |
| r | ||
random |
Generate pseudo-random numbers with various common distributions. | |
re |
Regular expression operations. | |
readline (Unix) |
GNU readline support for Python. | |
resource (Unix) |
An interface to provide resource usage information on the current process. | |
rexec |
Deprecated: Basic restricted execution framework. | |
rfc822 |
Deprecated: Parse 2822 style mail messages. | |
rlcompleter |
Python identifier completion, suitable for the GNU readline library. | |
robotparser |
Loads a robots.txt file and answers questions about fetchability of other URLs. | |
runpy |
Locate and run Python modules without importing them first. | |
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sched |
General purpose event scheduler. | |
ScrolledText (Tk) |
Text widget with a vertical scroll bar. | |
select |
Wait for I/O completion on multiple streams. | |
sets |
Deprecated: Implementation of sets of unique elements. | |
sgmllib |
Deprecated: Only as much of an SGML parser as needed to parse HTML. | |
sha |
Deprecated: NIST's secure hash algorithm, SHA. | |
shelve |
Python object persistence. | |
shlex |
Simple lexical analysis for Unix shell-like languages. | |
shutil |
High-level file operations, including copying. | |
signal |
Set handlers for asynchronous events. | |
SimpleHTTPServer |
This module provides a basic request handler for HTTP servers. | |
SimpleXMLRPCServer |
Basic XML-RPC server implementation. | |
site |
Module responsible for site-specific configuration. | |
smtpd |
A SMTP server implementation in Python. | |
smtplib |
SMTP protocol client (requires sockets). | |
sndhdr |
Determine type of a sound file. | |
socket |
Low-level networking interface. | |
SocketServer |
A framework for network servers. | |
spwd (Unix) |
The shadow password database (getspnam() and friends). | |
sqlite3 |
A DB-API 2.0 implementation using SQLite 3.x. | |
ssl |
TLS/SSL wrapper for socket objects | |
stat |
Utilities for interpreting the results of os.stat(), os.lstat() and os.fstat(). | |
statvfs |
Deprecated: Constants for interpreting the result of os.statvfs(). | |
string |
Common string operations. | |
StringIO |
Read and write strings as if they were files. | |
stringprep |
String preparation, as per RFC 3453 | |
struct |
Interpret strings as packed binary data. | |
subprocess |
Subprocess management. | |
sunau |
Provide an interface to the Sun AU sound format. | |
sunaudiodev (SunOS) |
Deprecated: Access to Sun audio hardware. | |
SUNAUDIODEV (SunOS) |
Deprecated: Constants for use with sunaudiodev. | |
symbol |
Constants representing internal nodes of the parse tree. | |
symtable |
Interface to the compiler's internal symbol tables. | |
sys |
Access system-specific parameters and functions. | |
sysconfig |
Python's configuration information | |
syslog (Unix) |
An interface to the Unix syslog library routines. | |
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tabnanny |
Tool for detecting white space related problems in Python source files in a directory tree. | |
tarfile |
Read and write tar-format archive files. | |
telnetlib |
Telnet client class. | |
tempfile |
Generate temporary files and directories. | |
termios (Unix) |
POSIX style tty control. | |
test |
Regression tests package containing the testing suite for Python. | |
test.support |
Support for Python regression tests. | |
textwrap |
Text wrapping and filling | |
thread |
Create multiple threads of control within one interpreter. | |
threading |
Higher-level threading interface. | |
time |
Time access and conversions. | |
timeit |
Measure the execution time of small code snippets. | |
Tix |
Tk Extension Widgets for Tkinter | |
Tkinter |
Interface to Tcl/Tk for graphical user interfaces | |
token |
Constants representing terminal nodes of the parse tree. | |
tokenize |
Lexical scanner for Python source code. | |
trace |
Trace or track Python statement execution. | |
traceback |
Print or retrieve a stack traceback. | |
ttk |
Tk themed widget set | |
tty (Unix) |
Utility functions that perform common terminal control operations. | |
turtle |
Turtle graphics for Tk | |
types |
Names for built-in types. | |
| u | ||
unicodedata |
Access the Unicode Database. | |
unittest |
Unit testing framework for Python. | |
urllib |
Open an arbitrary network resource by URL (requires sockets). | |
urllib2 |
Next generation URL opening library. | |
urlparse |
Parse URLs into or assemble them from components. | |
user |
Deprecated: A standard way to reference user-specific modules. | |
UserDict |
Class wrapper for dictionary objects. | |
UserList |
Class wrapper for list objects. | |
UserString |
Class wrapper for string objects. | |
uu |
Encode and decode files in uuencode format. | |
uuid |
UUID objects (universally unique identifiers) according to RFC 4122 | |
| v | ||
videoreader (Mac) |
Deprecated: Read QuickTime movies frame by frame for further processing. | |
| w | ||
W (Mac) |
Deprecated: Widgets for the Mac, built on top of FrameWork. | |
warnings |
Issue warning messages and control their disposition. | |
wave |
Provide an interface to the WAV sound format. | |
weakref |
Support for weak references and weak dictionaries. | |
webbrowser |
Easy-to-use controller for Web browsers. | |
whichdb |
Guess which DBM-style module created a given database. | |
winsound (Windows) |
Access to the sound-playing machinery for Windows. | |
wsgiref |
WSGI Utilities and Reference Implementation. | |
wsgiref.handlers |
WSGI server/gateway base classes. | |
wsgiref.headers |
WSGI response header tools. | |
wsgiref.simple_server |
A simple WSGI HTTP server. | |
wsgiref.util |
WSGI environment utilities. | |
wsgiref.validate |
WSGI conformance checker. | |
| x | ||
xdrlib |
Encoders and decoders for the External Data Representation (XDR). | |
xml |
Package containing XML processing modules | |
xml.dom |
Document Object Model API for Python. | |
xml.dom.minidom |
Minimal Document Object Model (DOM) implementation. | |
xml.dom.pulldom |
Support for building partial DOM trees from SAX events. | |
xml.etree.ElementTree |
Implementation of the ElementTree API. | |
xml.parsers.expat |
An interface to the Expat non-validating XML parser. | |
xml.sax |
Package containing SAX2 base classes and convenience functions. | |
xml.sax.handler |
Base classes for SAX event handlers. | |
xml.sax.saxutils |
Convenience functions and classes for use with SAX. | |
xml.sax.xmlreader |
Interface which SAX-compliant XML parsers must implement. | |
xmlrpclib |
XML-RPC client access. | |
| z | ||
zipfile |
Read and write ZIP-format archive files. | |
zipimport |
support for importing Python modules from ZIP archives. | |
zlib |
Low-level interface to compression and decompression routines compatible with gzip. |
