Packages - The Go Programming Language

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Directory /src/pkg

Name      Synopsis
archive     
     tar      Package tar implements access to tar archives.
     zip      Package zip provides support for reading and writing ZIP archives.
bufio      Package bufio implements buffered I/O. It wraps an io.Reader or io.Writer object, creating another object (Reader or Writer) that also implements the interface but provides buffering and some help for textual I/O.
builtin      Package builtin provides documentation for Go's predeclared identifiers.
bytes      Package bytes implements functions for the manipulation of byte slices.
compress     
     bzip2      Package bzip2 implements bzip2 decompression.
     flate      Package flate implements the DEFLATE compressed data format, described in RFC 1951.
     gzip      Package gzip implements reading and writing of gzip format compressed files, as specified in RFC 1952.
     lzw      Package lzw implements the Lempel-Ziv-Welch compressed data format, described in T. A. Welch, ``A Technique for High-Performance Data Compression'', Computer, 17(6) (June 1984), pp 8-19.
     zlib      Package zlib implements reading and writing of zlib format compressed data, as specified in RFC 1950.
container     
     heap      Package heap provides heap operations for any type that implements heap.Interface.
     list      Package list implements a doubly linked list.
     ring      Package ring implements operations on circular lists.
crypto      Package crypto collects common cryptographic constants.
     aes      Package aes implements AES encryption (formerly Rijndael), as defined in U.S. Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 197.
     cipher      Package cipher implements standard block cipher modes that can be wrapped around low-level block cipher implementations.
     des      Package des implements the Data Encryption Standard (DES) and the Triple Data Encryption Algorithm (TDEA) as defined in U.S. Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 46-3.
     dsa      Package dsa implements the Digital Signature Algorithm, as defined in FIPS 186-3.
     ecdsa      Package ecdsa implements the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm, as defined in FIPS 186-3.
     elliptic      Package elliptic implements several standard elliptic curves over prime fields.
     hmac      Package hmac implements the Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC) as defined in U.S. Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 198.
     md5      Package md5 implements the MD5 hash algorithm as defined in RFC 1321.
     rand      Package rand implements a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator.
     rc4      Package rc4 implements RC4 encryption, as defined in Bruce Schneier's Applied Cryptography.
     rsa      Package rsa implements RSA encryption as specified in PKCS#1.
     sha1      Package sha1 implements the SHA1 hash algorithm as defined in RFC 3174.
     sha256      Package sha256 implements the SHA224 and SHA256 hash algorithms as defined in FIPS 180-2.
     sha512      Package sha512 implements the SHA384 and SHA512 hash algorithms as defined in FIPS 180-2.
     subtle      Package subtle implements functions that are often useful in cryptographic code but require careful thought to use correctly.
     tls      Package tls partially implements TLS 1.0, as specified in RFC 2246.
     x509      Package x509 parses X.509-encoded keys and certificates.
          pkix      Package pkix contains shared, low level structures used for ASN.1 parsing and serialization of X.509 certificates, CRL and OCSP.
database     
     sql      Package sql provides a generic interface around SQL (or SQL-like) databases.
          driver      Package driver defines interfaces to be implemented by database drivers as used by package sql.
debug     
     dwarf      Package dwarf provides access to DWARF debugging information loaded from executable files, as defined in the DWARF 2.0 Standard at http://dwarfstd.org/doc/dwarf-2.0.0.pdf
     elf      Package elf implements access to ELF object files.
     gosym      Package gosym implements access to the Go symbol and line number tables embedded in Go binaries generated by the gc compilers.
     macho      Package macho implements access to Mach-O object files.
     pe      Package pe implements access to PE (Microsoft Windows Portable Executable) files.
encoding     
     ascii85      Package ascii85 implements the ascii85 data encoding as used in the btoa tool and Adobe's PostScript and PDF document formats.
     asn1      Package asn1 implements parsing of DER-encoded ASN.1 data structures, as defined in ITU-T Rec X.690.
     base32      Package base32 implements base32 encoding as specified by RFC 4648.
     base64      Package base64 implements base64 encoding as specified by RFC 4648.
     binary      Package binary implements translation between numbers and byte sequences and encoding and decoding of varints.
     csv      Package csv reads and writes comma-separated values (CSV) files.
     gob      Package gob manages streams of gobs - binary values exchanged between an Encoder (transmitter) and a Decoder (receiver).
     hex      Package hex implements hexadecimal encoding and decoding.
     json      Package json implements encoding and decoding of JSON objects as defined in RFC 4627.
     pem      Package pem implements the PEM data encoding, which originated in Privacy Enhanced Mail.
     xml      Package xml implements a simple XML 1.0 parser that understands XML name spaces.
errors      Package errors implements functions to manipulate errors.
expvar      Package expvar provides a standardized interface to public variables, such as operation counters in servers.
flag      Package flag implements command-line flag parsing.
fmt      Package fmt implements formatted I/O with functions analogous to C's printf and scanf.
go     
     ast      Package ast declares the types used to represent syntax trees for Go packages.
     build      Package build gathers information about Go packages.
     doc      Package doc extracts source code documentation from a Go AST.
     parser      Package parser implements a parser for Go source files.
     printer      Package printer implements printing of AST nodes.
     scanner      Package scanner implements a scanner for Go source text.
     token      Package token defines constants representing the lexical tokens of the Go programming language and basic operations on tokens (printing, predicates).
hash      Package hash provides interfaces for hash functions.
     adler32      Package adler32 implements the Adler-32 checksum.
     crc32      Package crc32 implements the 32-bit cyclic redundancy check, or CRC-32, checksum.
     crc64      Package crc64 implements the 64-bit cyclic redundancy check, or CRC-64, checksum.
     fnv      Package fnv implements FNV-1 and FNV-1a, non-cryptographic hash functions created by Glenn Fowler, Landon Curt Noll, and Phong Vo.
html      Package html provides functions for escaping and unescaping HTML text.
     template      Package template (html/template) implements data-driven templates for generating HTML output safe against code injection.
image      Package image implements a basic 2-D image library.
     color      Package color implements a basic color library.
     draw      Package draw provides image composition functions.
     gif      Package gif implements a GIF image decoder.
     jpeg      Package jpeg implements a JPEG image decoder and encoder.
     png      Package png implements a PNG image decoder and encoder.
index     
     suffixarray      Package suffixarray implements substring search in logarithmic time using an in-memory suffix array.
io      Package io provides basic interfaces to I/O primitives.
     ioutil      Package ioutil implements some I/O utility functions.
log      Package log implements a simple logging package.
     syslog      Package syslog provides a simple interface to the system log service.
math      Package math provides basic constants and mathematical functions.
     big      Package big implements multi-precision arithmetic (big numbers).
     cmplx      Package cmplx provides basic constants and mathematical functions for complex numbers.
     rand      Package rand implements pseudo-random number generators.
mime      Package mime implements parts of the MIME spec.
     multipart      Package multipart implements MIME multipart parsing, as defined in RFC 2046.
net      Package net provides a portable interface for network I/O, including TCP/IP, UDP, domain name resolution, and Unix domain sockets.
     http      Package http provides HTTP client and server implementations.
          cgi      Package cgi implements CGI (Common Gateway Interface) as specified in RFC 3875.
          fcgi      Package fcgi implements the FastCGI protocol.
          httptest      Package httptest provides utilities for HTTP testing.
          httputil      Package httputil provides HTTP utility functions, complementing the more common ones in the net/http package.
          pprof      Package pprof serves via its HTTP server runtime profiling data in the format expected by the pprof visualization tool.
     mail      Package mail implements parsing of mail messages.
     rpc      Package rpc provides access to the exported methods of an object across a network or other I/O connection.
          jsonrpc      Package jsonrpc implements a JSON-RPC ClientCodec and ServerCodec for the rpc package.
     smtp      Package smtp implements the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol as defined in RFC 5321.
     textproto      Package textproto implements generic support for text-based request/response protocols in the style of HTTP, NNTP, and SMTP.
     url      Package url parses URLs and implements query escaping.
os      Package os provides a platform-independent interface to operating system functionality.
     exec      Package exec runs external commands.
     signal      Package signal implements access to incoming signals.
     user      Package user allows user account lookups by name or id.
path      Package path implements utility routines for manipulating slash-separated paths.
     filepath      Package filepath implements utility routines for manipulating filename paths in a way compatible with the target operating system-defined file paths.
reflect      Package reflect implements run-time reflection, allowing a program to manipulate objects with arbitrary types.
regexp      Package regexp implements regular expression search.
     syntax      Package syntax parses regular expressions into parse trees and compiles parse trees into programs.
runtime      Package runtime contains operations that interact with Go's runtime system, such as functions to control goroutines.
     cgo      Package cgo contains runtime support for code generated by the cgo tool.
     debug      Package debug contains facilities for programs to debug themselves while they are running.
     pprof      Package pprof writes runtime profiling data in the format expected by the pprof visualization tool.
sort      Package sort provides primitives for sorting slices and user-defined collections.
strconv      Package strconv implements conversions to and from string representations of basic data types.
strings      Package strings implements simple functions to manipulate strings.
sync      Package sync provides basic synchronization primitives such as mutual exclusion locks.
     atomic      Package atomic provides low-level atomic memory primitives useful for implementing synchronization algorithms.
syscall      Package syscall contains an interface to the low-level operating system primitives.
testing      Package testing provides support for automated testing of Go packages.
     iotest      Package iotest implements Readers and Writers useful mainly for testing.
     quick      Package quick implements utility functions to help with black box testing.
text     
     scanner      Package scanner provides a scanner and tokenizer for UTF-8-encoded text.
     tabwriter      Package tabwriter implements a write filter (tabwriter.Writer) that translates tabbed columns in input into properly aligned text.
     template      Package template implements data-driven templates for generating textual output.
          parse      Package parse builds parse trees for templates as defined by text/template and html/template.
time      Package time provides functionality for measuring and displaying time.
unicode      Package unicode provides data and functions to test some properties of Unicode code points.
     utf16      Package utf16 implements encoding and decoding of UTF-16 sequences.
     utf8      Package utf8 implements functions and constants to support text encoded in UTF-8.
unsafe      Package unsafe contains operations that step around the type safety of Go programs.

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