Python documentation

Front Matter
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Built-in Types, Exceptions and Functions
- 2.1 Built-in Types
- 2.2 Built-in Exceptions
- 2.3 Built-in Functions
3. Python Services
- 3.1 sys -- System-specific parameters and functions
- 3.2 types -- Names for all built-in types.
- 3.3 UserDict -- Class wrapper for dictionary objects.
- 3.4 UserList -- Class wrapper for list objects.
- 3.5 operator -- Standard operators as functions.
- 3.6 traceback -- Print or retrieve a stack traceback.
- 3.7 pickle -- Python object serialization
- 3.8 cPickle -- Alternate implementation of pickle
- 3.9 copy_reg -- Register pickle support functions
- 3.10 shelve -- Python object persistency
- 3.11 copy -- Shallow and deep copy operations
- 3.12 marshal -- Alternate Python object serialization
- 3.13 imp -- Access the import internals
- 3.14 parser -- Access parse trees for Python code
- 3.15 symbol -- Constants used with Python parse trees
- 3.16 token -- Constants used with Python parse trees
- 3.17 keyword -- Testing for Python keywords
- 3.18 tokenize -- Tokenizer for Python source
- 3.19 pyclbr -- Python class browser support
- 3.20 code -- Code object services.
- 3.21 pprint -- Data pretty printer.
- 3.22 repr -- Alternate repr() implementation.
- 3.23 py_compile -- Compile Python source files.
- 3.24 compileall -- Byte-compile Python libraries.
- 3.25 dis -- Disassembler.
- 3.26 site -- Site-specific configuration hook
- 3.27 user -- User-specific configuration hook
- 3.28 __builtin__ -- Built-in functions
- 3.29 __main__ -- Top-level script environment.
4. String Services
- 4.1 string -- Common string operations
- 4.2 re -- Perl-style regular expression operations.
- 4.3 regex -- Regular expression search and match operations.
- 4.4 regsub -- String operations using regular expressions
- 4.5 struct -- Interpret strings as packed binary data.
- 4.6 StringIO -- Read and write strings as files
- 4.7 cStringIO -- Faster version of StringIO
5. Miscellaneous Services
- 5.1 math -- Mathematical functions
- 5.2 cmath -- Mathematical functions for complex numbers
- 5.3 whrandom -- Floating point pseudo-random number generator.
- 5.4 random -- Generate pseudo-random numbers
- 5.5 bisect -- Array bisection algorithm
- 5.6 array -- Efficient arrays of numeric values
- 5.7 ConfigParser -- Configuration file parser
- 5.8 fileinput -- Iteration over lines from multiple input streams.
- 5.9 calendar -- Functions that emulate the Unix cal program.
- 5.10 cmd -- Build line-oriented command interpreters.
- 5.11 shlex -- Simple lexical analysis.
6. Generic Operating System Services
- 6.1 os -- Miscellaneous OS interfaces
- 6.2 os.path -- Common pathname manipulations
- 6.3 stat -- Interpreting stat() results
- 6.4 time -- Time access and conversions.
- 6.5 getpass -- Portable password input
- 6.6 getopt -- Parser for command line options.
- 6.7 tempfile -- Generate temporary file names
- 6.8 errno -- Standard errno system symbols.
- 6.9 glob -- Unix style pathname pattern expansion
- 6.10 fnmatch -- Unix style filename pattern matching
- 6.11 shutil -- High-level file operations
- 6.12 locale -- Internationalization services
7. Optional Operating System Services
- 7.1 signal -- Set handlers for asynchronous events.
- 7.2 socket -- Low-level networking interface
- 7.3 select -- Waiting for I/O completion
- 7.4 thread -- Multiple threads of control
- 7.5 threading -- Higher-level threading interface
- 7.6 Queue -- A synchronized queue class.
- 7.7 anydbm -- Generic access to DBM-style databases
- 7.8 dumbdbm -- Portable DBM implementation
- 7.9 dbhash -- DBM-style interface to the BSD database library
- 7.10 whichdb -- Guess which DBM module created a database
- 7.11 bsddb -- Interface to Berkeley DB library
- 7.12 zlib -- Compression compatible with gzip
- 7.13 gzip -- Support for gzip files
8. Unix Specific Services
- 8.1 posix -- The most common POSIX system calls
- 8.2 pwd -- The password database
- 8.3 grp -- The group database
- 8.4 crypt -- Function used to check Unix passwords
- 8.5 dbm -- Simple ``database'' interface
- 8.6 gdbm -- GNU's reinterpretation of dbm
- 8.7 termios -- POSIX style tty control
- 8.8 TERMIOS -- Constants used with the termios module
- 8.9 fcntl -- The fcntl() and ioctl() system calls
- 8.10 posixfile -- File-like objects with locking support
- 8.11 resource -- Resource usage information
- 8.12 syslog -- Unix syslog library routines
- 8.13 popen2 -- Subprocesses with accessible standard I/O streams
- 8.14 commands -- Utilities for running commands
9. The Python Debugger
- 9.1 Debugger Commands
- 9.2 How It Works
10. The Python Profiler
- 10.1 Introduction to the profiler
- 10.2 How Is This Profiler Different From The Old Profiler?
- 10.3 Instant Users Manual
- 10.4 What Is Deterministic Profiling?
- 10.5 Reference Manual
- 10.6 Limitations
- 10.7 Calibration
- 10.8 Extensions -- Deriving Better Profilers
11. Internet Protocols and Support
- 11.1 cgi -- Common Gateway Interface support.
- 11.2 urllib -- Open an arbitrary object given by URL.
- 11.3 httplib -- HTTP protocol client
- 11.4 ftplib -- FTP protocol client
- 11.5 gopherlib -- Gopher protocol client
- 11.6 poplib -- POP3 protocol client
- 11.7 imaplib -- IMAP4 protocol client
- 11.8 nntplib -- NNTP protocol client
- 11.9 smtplib -- SMTP protocol client
- 11.10 telnetlib -- Telnet client
- 11.11 urlparse -- Parse URLs into components.
- 11.12 SocketServer -- A framework for network servers.
- 11.13 BaseHTTPServer -- Basic HTTP server.
12. Internet Data Handling
- 12.1 sgmllib -- Simple SGML parser
- 12.2 htmllib -- A parser for HTML documents
- 12.3 xmllib -- A parser for XML documents
- 12.4 formatter -- Generic output formatting
- 12.5 rfc822 -- Parse RFC 822 mail headers
- 12.6 mimetools -- Tools for parsing MIME messages
- 12.7 MimeWriter -- Generic MIME file writer
- 12.8 multifile -- Support for files containing distinct parts
- 12.9 binhex -- Encode and decode binhex4 files
- 12.10 uu -- Encode and decode uuencode files
- 12.11 binascii -- Convert between binary and ASCII
- 12.12 xdrlib -- Encode and decode XDR data.
- 12.13 mailcap -- Mailcap file handling.
- 12.14 mimetypes -- Map filenames to MIME types
- 12.15 base64 -- Encode and decode MIME base64 data
- 12.16 quopri -- Encode and decode MIME quoted-printable data
- 12.17 mailbox -- Read various mailbox formats
- 12.18 mhlib -- Access to MH mailboxes
- 12.19 mimify -- MIME processing of mail messages
- 12.20 netrc -- netrc file processing
13. Restricted Execution
- 13.1 rexec -- Restricted execution framework
- 13.2 Bastion -- Restricting access to objects
14. Multimedia Services
- 14.1 audioop -- Manipulate raw audio data
- 14.2 imageop -- Manipulate raw image data
- 14.3 aifc -- Read and write AIFF and AIFC files
- 14.4 colorsys -- Conversions between color systems
- 14.5 rgbimg -- Read and write ``SGI RGB'' files
- 14.6 imghdr -- Determine the type of an image.
- 14.7 sndhdr -- Determine type of sound file.
15. Cryptographic Services
- 15.1 md5 -- MD5 message digest algorithm
- 15.2 sha -- SHA message digest algorithm
- 15.3 mpz -- GNU arbitrary magnitude integers
- 15.4 rotor -- Enigma-like encryption and decryption.
16. SGI IRIX Specific Services
- 16.1 al -- Audio functions on the SGI
- 16.2 AL -- Constants used with the al module
- 16.3 cd -- CD-ROM access on SGI systems
- 16.4 fl -- FORMS library interface for GUI applications
- 16.5 FL -- Constants used with the fl module
- 16.6 flp -- Functions for loading stored FORMS designs
- 16.7 fm -- Font Manager interface
- 16.8 gl -- Graphics Library interface
- 16.9 DEVICE -- Constants used with the gl module
- 16.10 GL -- Constants used with the gl module
- 16.11 imgfile -- Support for SGI imglib files
- 16.12 jpeg -- Read and write JPEG files
17. SunOS Specific Services
- 17.1 sunaudiodev -- Access to Sun audio hardware
18. MS Windows Specific Services
- 18.1 msvcrt - Useful routines from the MS VC++ runtime
- 18.2 winsound -- Sound-playing interface for Windows
19. Undocumented Modules
- 19.1 Frameworks
- 19.2 Miscellaneous useful utilities
- 19.3 Platform specific modules
- 19.4 Multimedia
- 19.5 Oddities
- 19.6 Obsolete
- 19.7 Extension modules
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