Standard Modules

Standard Modules

* abc
    -- Abstract Base Classes (ABCs) according to PEP 3119.
* _abcoll
    -- Abstract Base Classes (ABCs) for collections, according to PEP 3119.
* aifc
    -- Stuff to parse AIFF-C and AIFF files.
* antigravity
    -- {Undocumented}
* anydbm
    -- Generic interface to all dbm clones.
* argparse
    -- Command-line parsing library
* ast
    -- ast
* asynchat
    -- A class supporting chat-style (command/response) protocols.
* asyncore
    -- Basic infrastructure for asynchronous socket service clients and servers.
* atexit
    -- allow programmer to define multiple exit functions to be executed upon normal program termination.
* audiodev
    -- Classes for manipulating audio devices (currently only for Sun and SGI)
* base64
    -- RFC 3548: Base16, Base32, Base64 Data Encodings
* BaseHTTPServer
    -- HTTP server base class.
* Bastion
    -- ification utility.
* bdb
    -- Debugger basics
* binhex
    -- Macintosh binhex compression/decompression.
* bisect
    -- Bisection algorithms.
* bsddb
    -- Support for Berkeley DB 4.1 through 4.8 with a simple interface.
* calendar
    -- Calendar printing functions
* cgi
    -- Support module for CGI (Common Gateway Interface) scripts.
* CGIHTTPServer
    -- CGI-savvy HTTP Server.
* cgitb
    -- More comprehensive traceback formatting for Python scripts.
* chunk
    -- Simple class to read IFF chunks.
* cmd
    -- A generic class to build line-oriented command interpreters.
* code
    -- Utilities needed to emulate Python's interactive interpreter.
* codecs
    -- Python Codec Registry, API and helpers.
* codeop
    -- Utilities to compile possibly incomplete Python source code.
* collections
    -- {Undocumented}
* colorsys
    -- Conversion functions between RGB and other color systems.
* commands
    -- Execute shell commands via os.popen() and return status, output.
* compileall
    -- Module/script to "compile" all .py files to .pyc (or .pyo) file.
* compiler
    -- Package for parsing and compiling Python source code
* config
    -- {Not importable - ImportError}
* ConfigParser
    -- Configuration file parser.
* contextlib
    -- Utilities for with-statement contexts. See PEP 343.
* Cookie
    -- Here's a sample session to show how to use this module. At the moment, this is the only documentation.
* cookielib
    -- HTTP cookie handling for web clients.
* copy
    -- Generic (shallow and deep) copying operations.
* copy_reg
    -- Helper to provide extensibility for pickle/cPickle.
* cProfile
    -- Python interface for the 'lsprof' profiler. Compatible with the 'profile' module.
* csv
    -- CSV parsing and writing.
* ctypes
    -- create and manipulate C data types in Python
* curses
    -- curses
* dbhash
    -- Provide a (g)dbm-compatible interface to bsddb.hashopen.
* decimal
    -- This is a Py2.3 implementation of decimal floating point arithmetic based on the General Decimal Arithmetic Specification:
* Demo
    -- {Not importable - ImportError}
* difflib
    -- helpers for computing deltas between objects.
* dircache
    -- Read and cache directory listings.
* dis
    -- Disassembler of Python byte code into mnemonics.
* distutils
    -- distutils
* Doc
    -- {Not importable - ImportError}
* doctest
    -- a framework for running examples in docstrings.
* DocXMLRPCServer
    -- Self documenting XML-RPC Server.
* dumbdbm
    -- A dumb and slow but simple dbm clone.
* dummy_thread
    -- Drop-in replacement for the thread module.
* dummy_threading
    -- Faux ``threading`` version using ``dummy_thread`` instead of ``thread``.
* email
    -- A package for parsing, handling, and generating email messages.
* encodings
    -- Standard "encodings" Package
* filecmp
    -- Utilities for comparing files and directories.
* fileinput
    -- Helper class to quickly write a loop over all standard input files.
* fnmatch
    -- Filename matching with shell patterns.
* formatter
    -- Generic output formatting.
* fpformat
    -- General floating point formatting functions.
* fractions
    -- Rational, infinite-precision, real numbers.
* ftplib
    -- An FTP client class and some helper functions.
* functools
    -- Tools for working with functions and callable objects
* __future__
    -- Record of phased-in incompatible language changes.
* genericpath
    -- Path operations common to more than one OS Do not use directly. The OS specific modules import the appropriate functions from this module themselves.
* getopt
    -- Parser for command line options.
* getpass
    -- Utilities to get a password and/or the current user name.
* gettext
    -- Internationalization and localization support.
* glob
    -- Filename globbing utility.
* gzip
    -- Functions that read and write gzipped files.
* hashlib
    -- module - A common interface to many hash functions.
* heapq
    -- Heap queue algorithm (a.k.a. priority queue).
* hmac
    -- HMAC (Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication) Python module.
* hotshot
    -- High-perfomance logging profiler, mostly written in C.
* htmlentitydefs
    -- HTML character entity references.
* htmllib
    -- HTML 2.0 parser.
* HTMLParser
    -- A parser for HTML and XHTML.
* httplib
    -- HTTP/1.1 client library
* idlelib
    -- {Undocumented}
* ihooks
    -- Import hook support.
* imaplib
    -- IMAP4 client.
* imghdr
    -- Recognize image file formats based on their first few bytes.
* importlib
    -- Backport of importlib.import_module from 3.x.
* imputil
    -- Import utilities
* inspect
    -- Get useful information from live Python objects.
* io
    -- The io module provides the Python interfaces to stream handling. The builtin open function is defined in this module.
* json
    -- JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a subset of JavaScript syntax (ECMA-262 3rd edition) used as a lightweight data interchange format.
* keyword
    -- Keywords (from "graminit.c")
* lib-dynload
    -- {Not importable - SyntaxError}
* lib-tk
    -- {Not importable - SyntaxError}
* lib2to3
    -- {Undocumented}
* linecache
    -- Cache lines from files.
* locale
    -- Locale support.
* logging
    -- Logging package for Python. Based on PEP 282 and comments thereto in comp.lang.python, and influenced by Apache's log4j system.
* _LWPCookieJar
    -- Load / save to libwww-perl (LWP) format files.
* macpath
    -- Pathname and path-related operations for the Macintosh.
* macurl2path
    -- Macintosh-specific module for conversion between pathnames and URLs.
* mailbox
    -- Read/write support for Maildir, mbox, MH, Babyl, and MMDF mailboxes.
* mailcap
    -- Mailcap file handling. See RFC 1524.
* markupbase
    -- Shared support for scanning document type declarations in HTML and XHTML.
* md5
    -- {Undocumented, with warnings - possibly deprecated?}
* mhlib
    -- MH interface -- purely object-oriented (well, almost)
* mimetools
    -- Various tools used by MIME-reading or MIME-writing programs.
* mimetypes
    -- Guess the MIME type of a file.
* MimeWriter
    -- Generic MIME writer.
* mimify
    -- Mimification and unmimification of mail messages.
* modulefinder
    -- Find modules used by a script, using introspection.
* _MozillaCookieJar
    -- Mozilla / Netscape cookie loading / saving.
* multifile
    -- A readline()-style interface to the parts of a multipart message.
* multiprocessing
    -- {Undocumented}
* mutex
    -- Mutual exclusion -- for use with module sched
* netrc
    -- An object-oriented interface to .netrc files.
* new
    -- Create new objects of various types. Deprecated.
* nntplib
    -- An NNTP client class based on RFC 977: Network News Transfer Protocol.
* ntpath
    -- Common pathname manipulations, WindowsNT/95 version.
* nturl2path
    -- Convert a NT pathname to a file URL and vice versa.
* numbers
    -- Abstract Base Classes (ABCs) for numbers, according to PEP 3141.
* opcode
    -- module - potentially shared between dis and other modules which operate on bytecodes (e.g. peephole optimizers).
* optparse
    -- A powerful, extensible, and easy-to-use option parser.
* os
    -- OS routines for Mac, NT, or Posix depending on what system we're on.
* os2emxpath
    -- Common pathname manipulations, OS/2 EMX version.
* pdb
    -- A Python debugger.
* __phello__.foo
    -- {Undocumented}
* pickle
    -- Create portable serialized representations of Python objects.
* pickletools
    -- "Executable documentation" for the pickle module.
* pipes
    -- Conversion pipeline templates.
* pkgutil
    -- Utilities to support packages.
* platform
    -- This module tries to retrieve as much platform-identifying data as possible. It makes this information available via function APIs.
* plat-linux2
    -- {Not importable - SyntaxError}
* plistlib
    -- a tool to generate and parse MacOSX .plist files.
* popen2
    -- Spawn a command with pipes to its stdin, stdout, and optionally stderr.
* poplib
    -- A POP3 client class.
* posixfile
    -- Extended file operations available in POSIX.
* posixpath
    -- Common operations on Posix pathnames.
* pprint
    -- Support to pretty-print lists, tuples, & dictionaries recursively.
* profile
    -- Class for profiling Python code.
* pstats
    -- Class for printing reports on profiled python code.
* pty
    -- Pseudo terminal utilities.
* pyclbr
    -- Parse a Python module and describe its classes and methods.
* py_compile
    -- Routine to "compile" a .py file to a .pyc (or .pyo) file.
* pydoc
    -- Generate Python documentation in HTML or text for interactive use.
* pydoc_data
    -- {Undocumented}
* _pyio
    -- Python implementation of the io module.
* Queue
    -- A multi-producer, multi-consumer queue.
* quopri
    -- Conversions to/from quoted-printable transport encoding as per RFC 1521.
* random
    -- Random variable generators.
* re
    -- Support for regular expressions (RE).
* repr
    -- Redo the builtin repr() (representation) but with limits on most sizes.
* rexec
    -- Restricted execution facilities.
* rfc822
    -- RFC 2822 message manipulation.
* rlcompleter
    -- Word completion for GNU readline 2.0.
* robotparser
* runpy
    -- locating and running Python code using the module namespace
* sched
    -- A generally useful event scheduler class.
* sets
    -- Classes to represent arbitrary sets (including sets of sets).
* sgmllib
    -- A parser for SGML, using the derived class as a static DTD.
* sha
    -- {Undocumented, with warnings - possibly deprecated?}
* shelve
    -- Manage shelves of pickled objects.
* shlex
    -- A lexical analyzer class for simple shell-like syntaxes.
* shutil
    -- Utility functions for copying and archiving files and directory trees.
* SimpleHTTPServer
    -- Simple HTTP Server.
* SimpleXMLRPCServer
    -- Simple XML-RPC Server.
* site
    -- Append module search paths for third-party packages to sys.path.
* site-packages
    -- {Not importable - SyntaxError}
* smtpd
    -- An RFC 2821 smtp proxy.
* smtplib
    -- SMTP/ESMTP client class.
* sndhdr
    -- Routines to help recognizing sound files.
* socket
    -- This module provides socket operations and some related functions. On Unix, it supports IP (Internet Protocol) and Unix domain sockets. On other systems, it only supports IP. Functions specific for a socket are available as methods of the socket object.
* SocketServer
    -- Generic socket server classes.
* sqlite3
    -- {Undocumented}
* sre
    -- This file is only retained for backwards compatibility. It will be removed in the future. sre was moved to re in version 2.5.
* sre_compile
    -- Internal support module for sre
* sre_constants
    -- Internal support module for sre
* sre_parse
    -- Internal support module for sre
* ssl
    -- This module provides some more Pythonic support for SSL.
* stat
    -- Constants/functions for interpreting results of os.stat() and os.lstat().
* statvfs
    -- Constants for interpreting the results of os.statvfs() and os.fstatvfs().
* string
    -- A collection of string operations (most are no longer used).
* StringIO
    -- File-like objects that read from or write to a string buffer.
* stringold
    -- Common string manipulations.
* stringprep
    -- Library that exposes various tables found in the StringPrep RFC 3454.
* _strptime
    -- Strptime-related classes and functions.
* struct
    -- Functions to convert between Python values and C structs represented as Python strings. It uses format strings (explained below) as compact descriptions of the lay-out of the C structs and the intended conversion to/from Python values.
* subprocess
    -- Subprocesses with accessible I/O streams
* sunau
    -- Stuff to parse Sun and NeXT audio files.
* sunaudio
    -- Interpret sun audio headers.
* symbol
    -- Non-terminal symbols of Python grammar (from "graminit.h").
* symtable
    -- Interface to the compiler's internal symbol tables
* sysconfig
    -- Provide access to Python's configuration information.
* tabnanny
    -- The Tab Nanny despises ambiguous indentation. She knows no mercy.
* tarfile
    -- Read from and write to tar format archives.
* telnetlib
    -- TELNET client class.
* tempfile
    -- Temporary files.
* test
    -- {Undocumented}
* textwrap
    -- Text wrapping and filling.
* this
    -- The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters
* threading
    -- Thread module emulating a subset of Java's threading model.
* _threading_local
    -- Thread-local objects.
* timeit
    -- Tool for measuring execution time of small code snippets.
* toaiff
    -- Convert "arbitrary" sound files to AIFF (Apple and SGI's audio format).
* token
    -- Token constants (from "token.h").
* tokenize
    -- Tokenization help for Python programs.
* Tools
    -- {Not importable - ImportError}
* trace
    -- program/module to trace Python program or function execution
* traceback
    -- Extract, format and print information about Python stack traces.
* tty
    -- Terminal utilities.
* types
    -- Define names for all type symbols known in the standard interpreter.
* unittest
    -- Python unit testing framework, based on Erich Gamma's JUnit and Kent Beck's Smalltalk testing framework.
* urllib
    -- Open an arbitrary URL.
* urllib2
    -- An extensible library for opening URLs using a variety of protocols
* urlparse
    -- Parse (absolute and relative) URLs.
* user
    -- Hook to allow user-specified customization code to run.
* UserDict
    -- A more or less complete user-defined wrapper around dictionary objects.
* UserList
    -- A more or less complete user-defined wrapper around list objects.
* UserString
    -- A user-defined wrapper around string objects
* uu
    -- Implementation of the UUencode and UUdecode functions.
* uuid
    -- UUID objects (universally unique identifiers) according to RFC 4122.
* warnings
    -- Python part of the warnings subsystem.
* wave
    -- Stuff to parse WAVE files.
* weakref
    -- Weak reference support for Python.
* _weakrefset
    -- {Undocumented}
* webbrowser
    -- Interfaces for launching and remotely controlling Web browsers.
* whichdb
    -- Guess which db package to use to open a db file.
* wsgiref
    -- a WSGI (PEP 333) Reference Library
* xdrlib
    -- Implements (a subset of) Sun XDR -- eXternal Data Representation.
* xml
    -- Extended XML support for Python
* xmllib
    -- A parser for XML, using the derived class as static DTD.
* xmlrpclib
    -- An XML-RPC client interface for Python.
* zipfile
    -- Read and write ZIP files.
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