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__builtin__ |
The module that provides the built-in namespace. |
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__future__ |
Future statement definitions |
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__main__ |
The environment where the top-level script is run. |
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_winreg (Windows) |
Routines and objects for manipulating the Windows registry. |
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abc |
Abstract base classes according to PEP 3119. |
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aifc |
Read and write audio files in AIFF or AIFC format. |
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anydbm |
Generic interface to DBM-style database modules. |
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argparse |
Command-line option and argument parsing library. |
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array |
Space efficient arrays of uniformly typed numeric values. |
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ast |
Abstract Syntax Tree classes and manipulation. |
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asynchat |
Support for asynchronous command/response protocols. |
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asyncore |
A base class for developing asynchronous socket handling
services. |
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atexit |
Register and execute cleanup functions. |
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audioop |
Manipulate raw audio data. |
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base64 |
RFC 3548: Base16, Base32, Base64 Data Encodings |
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BaseHTTPServer |
Basic HTTP server (base class for SimpleHTTPServer and CGIHTTPServer). |
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Bastion | Deprecated:
Providing restricted access to objects. |
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bdb |
Debugger framework. |
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binascii |
Tools for converting between binary and various ASCII-encoded binary
representations. |
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binhex |
Encode and decode files in binhex4 format. |
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bisect |
Array bisection algorithms for binary searching. |
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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. |
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cgi |
Helpers for running Python scripts via the Common Gateway Interface. |
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CGIHTTPServer |
This module provides a request handler for HTTP servers which can run CGI
scripts. |
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cgitb |
Configurable traceback handler for CGI scripts. |
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chunk |
Module to read IFF chunks. |
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cmath |
Mathematical functions for complex numbers. |
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cmd |
Build line-oriented command interpreters. |
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code |
Facilities to implement read-eval-print loops. |
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codecs |
Encode and decode data and streams. |
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codeop |
Compile (possibly incomplete) Python code. |
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collections |
High-performance datatypes |
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colorsys |
Conversion functions between RGB and other color systems. |
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compileall |
Tools for byte-compiling all Python source files in a directory tree. |
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compiler | Deprecated:
Python code compiler written in Python. |
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compiler.ast |
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compiler.visitor |
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ConfigParser |
Configuration file parser. |
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contextlib |
Utilities for with-statement contexts. |
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Cookie |
Support for HTTP state management (cookies). |
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cookielib |
Classes for automatic handling of HTTP cookies. |
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copy |
Shallow and deep copy operations. |
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copy_reg |
Register pickle support functions. |
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cPickle |
Faster version of pickle, but not subclassable. |
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cProfile |
Python profiler |
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cStringIO |
Faster version of StringIO, but not subclassable. |
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csv |
Write and read tabular data to and from delimited files. |
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ctypes |
A foreign function library for Python. |
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curses (Unix) |
An interface to the curses library, providing portable terminal
handling. |
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curses.ascii |
Constants and set-membership functions for ASCII characters. |
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curses.panel |
A panel stack extension that adds depth to curses windows. |
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curses.textpad |
Emacs-like input editing in a curses window. |
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curses.wrapper |
Terminal configuration wrapper for curses programs. |
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datetime |
Basic date and time types. |
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dbhash |
DBM-style interface to the BSD database library. |
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decimal |
Implementation of the General Decimal Arithmetic Specification. |
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difflib |
Helpers for computing differences between objects. |
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dircache | Deprecated:
Return directory listing, with cache mechanism. |
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dis |
Disassembler for Python bytecode. |
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distutils |
Support for building and installing Python modules into an existing Python
installation. |
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distutils.archive_util |
Utility functions for creating archive files (tarballs, zip files, ...) |
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distutils.bcppcompiler |
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distutils.ccompiler |
Abstract CCompiler class |
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distutils.cmd |
This module provides the abstract base class Command. This class is subclassed
by the modules in the distutils.command subpackage. |
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distutils.command |
This subpackage contains one module for each standard Distutils command. |
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distutils.command.bdist |
Build a binary installer for a package |
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distutils.command.bdist_dumb |
Build a "dumb" installer - a simple archive of files |
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distutils.command.bdist_msi |
Build a binary distribution as a Windows MSI file |
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distutils.command.bdist_packager |
Abstract base class for packagers |
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distutils.command.bdist_rpm |
Build a binary distribution as a Redhat RPM and SRPM |
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distutils.command.bdist_wininst |
Build a Windows installer |
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distutils.command.build |
Build all files of a package |
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distutils.command.build_clib |
Build any C libraries in a package |
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distutils.command.build_ext |
Build any extensions in a package |
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distutils.command.build_py |
Build the .py/.pyc files of a package |
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distutils.command.build_scripts |
Build the scripts of a package |
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distutils.command.clean |
Clean a package build area |
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distutils.command.config |
Perform package configuration |
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distutils.command.install |
Install a package |
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distutils.command.install_data |
Install data files from a package |
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distutils.command.install_headers |
Install C/C++ header files from a package |
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distutils.command.install_lib |
Install library files from a package |
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distutils.command.install_scripts |
Install script files from a package |
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distutils.command.register |
Register a module with the Python Package Index |
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distutils.command.sdist |
Build a source distribution |
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distutils.core |
The core Distutils functionality |
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distutils.cygwinccompiler |
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distutils.debug |
Provides the debug flag for distutils |
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distutils.dep_util |
Utility functions for simple dependency checking |
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distutils.dir_util |
Utility functions for operating on directories and directory trees |
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distutils.dist |
Provides the Distribution class, which represents the module distribution being
built/installed/distributed |
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distutils.emxccompiler |
OS/2 EMX Compiler support |
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distutils.errors |
Provides standard distutils exceptions |
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distutils.extension |
Provides the Extension class, used to describe C/C++ extension modules in setup
scripts |
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distutils.fancy_getopt |
Additional getopt functionality |
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distutils.file_util |
Utility functions for operating on single files |
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distutils.filelist |
The FileList class, used for poking about the file system and
building lists of files. |
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distutils.log |
A simple logging mechanism, 282-style |
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distutils.msvccompiler |
Microsoft Compiler |
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distutils.spawn |
Provides the spawn() function |
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distutils.sysconfig |
Low-level access to configuration information of the Python interpreter. |
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distutils.text_file |
provides the TextFile class, a simple interface to text files |
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distutils.unixccompiler |
UNIX C Compiler |
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distutils.util |
Miscellaneous other utility functions |
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distutils.version |
implements classes that represent module version numbers. |
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doctest |
Test pieces of code within docstrings. |
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DocXMLRPCServer |
Self-documenting XML-RPC server implementation. |
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dumbdbm |
Portable implementation of the simple DBM interface. |
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dummy_thread |
Drop-in replacement for the thread module. |
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dummy_threading |
Drop-in replacement for the threading module. |
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email |
Package supporting the parsing, manipulating, and generating email messages,
including MIME documents. |
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email.charset |
Character Sets |
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email.encoders |
Encoders for email message payloads. |
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email.errors |
The exception classes used by the email package. |
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email.generator |
Generate flat text email messages from a message structure. |
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email.header |
Representing non-ASCII headers |
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email.iterators |
Iterate over a message object tree. |
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email.message |
The base class representing email messages. |
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email.mime |
Build MIME messages. |
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email.parser |
Parse flat text email messages to produce a message object structure. |
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email.utils |
Miscellaneous email package utilities. |
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encodings |
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encodings.idna |
Internationalized Domain Names implementation |
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encodings.utf_8_sig |
UTF-8 codec with BOM signature |
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errno |
Standard errno system symbols. |
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exceptions |
Standard exception classes. |
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filecmp |
Compare files efficiently. |
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fileinput |
Loop over standard input or a list of files. |
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fnmatch |
Unix shell style filename pattern matching. |
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formatter |
Generic output formatter and device interface. |
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fpformat | Deprecated:
General floating point formatting functions. |
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fractions |
Rational numbers. |
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ftplib |
FTP protocol client (requires sockets). |
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functools |
Higher order functions and operations on callable objects. |
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future_builtins |
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gc |
Interface to the cycle-detecting garbage collector. |
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getopt |
Portable parser for command line options; support both short and long option
names. |
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getpass |
Portable reading of passwords and retrieval of the userid. |
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gettext |
Multilingual internationalization services. |
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glob |
Unix shell style pathname pattern expansion. |
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gzip |
Interfaces for gzip compression and decompression using file objects. |
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hashlib |
Secure hash and message digest algorithms. |
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heapq |
Heap queue algorithm (a.k.a. priority queue). |
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hmac |
Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication (HMAC) implementation for Python. |
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hotshot |
High performance logging profiler, mostly written in C. |
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hotshot.stats |
Statistical analysis for Hotshot |
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htmlentitydefs |
Definitions of HTML general entities. |
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htmllib | Deprecated:
A parser for HTML documents. |
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HTMLParser |
A simple parser that can handle HTML and XHTML. |
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httplib |
HTTP and HTTPS protocol client (requires sockets). |
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imageop | Deprecated:
Manipulate raw image data. |
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imaplib |
IMAP4 protocol client (requires sockets). |
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imghdr |
Determine the type of image contained in a file or byte stream. |
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imp |
Access the implementation of the import statement. |
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importlib |
Convenience wrappers for __import__ |
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imputil | Deprecated:
Manage and augment the import process. |
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inspect |
Extract information and source code from live objects. |
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io |
Core tools for working with streams. |
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itertools |
Functions creating iterators for efficient looping. |
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json |
Encode and decode the JSON format. |
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keyword |
Test whether a string is a keyword in Python. |
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lib2to3 |
the 2to3 library |
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linecache |
This module provides random access to individual lines from text files. |
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locale |
Internationalization services. |
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logging |
Flexible error logging system for applications. |
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mailbox |
Manipulate mailboxes in various formats |
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mailcap |
Mailcap file handling. |
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marshal |
Convert Python objects to streams of bytes and back (with different
constraints). |
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math |
Mathematical functions (sin() etc.). |
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md5 | Deprecated:
RSA's MD5 message digest algorithm. |
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mhlib | Deprecated:
Manipulate MH mailboxes from Python. |
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mimetools | Deprecated:
Tools for parsing MIME-style message bodies. |
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mimetypes |
Mapping of filename extensions to MIME types. |
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MimeWriter | Deprecated:
Write MIME format files. |
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mimify | Deprecated:
Mimification and unmimification of mail messages. |
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mmap |
Interface to memory-mapped files for Unix and Windows. |
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modulefinder |
Find modules used by a script. |
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multifile | Deprecated:
Support for reading files which contain distinct parts, such as some MIME data. |
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multiprocessing |
Process-based "threading" interface. |
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multiprocessing.connection |
API for dealing with sockets. |
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multiprocessing.dummy |
Dumb wrapper around threading. |
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multiprocessing.managers |
Share data between process with shared objects. |
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multiprocessing.pool |
Create pools of processes. |
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multiprocessing.sharedctypes |
Allocate ctypes objects from shared memory. |
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mutex | Deprecated:
Lock and queue for mutual exclusion. |
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netrc |
Loading of .netrc files. |
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new | Deprecated:
Interface to the creation of runtime implementation objects. |
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nntplib |
NNTP protocol client (requires sockets). |
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numbers |
Numeric abstract base classes (Complex, Real, Integral, etc.). |
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operator |
Functions corresponding to the standard operators. |
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optparse | Deprecated:
Command-line option parsing library. |
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os |
Miscellaneous operating system interfaces. |
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os.path |
Operations on pathnames. |
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parser |
Access parse trees for Python source code. |
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pdb |
The Python debugger for interactive interpreters. |
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pickle |
Convert Python objects to streams of bytes and back. |
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pickletools |
Contains extensive comments about the pickle protocols and pickle-machine
opcodes, as well as some useful functions. |
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pkgutil |
Utilities to support extension of packages. |
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platform |
Retrieves as much platform identifying data as possible. |
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plistlib |
Generate and parse Mac OS X plist files. |
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popen2 | Deprecated:
Subprocesses with accessible standard I/O streams. |
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poplib |
POP3 protocol client (requires sockets). |
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pprint |
Data pretty printer. |
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profile |
Python source profiler. |
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pstats |
Statistics object for use with the profiler. |
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py_compile |
Generate byte-code files from Python source files. |
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pyclbr |
Supports information extraction for a Python class browser. |
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pydoc |
Documentation generator and online help system. |
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Queue |
A synchronized queue class. |
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quopri |
Encode and decode files using the MIME quoted-printable encoding. |
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random |
Generate pseudo-random numbers with various common distributions. |
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re |
Regular expression operations. |
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repr |
Alternate repr() implementation with size limits. |
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rexec | Deprecated:
Basic restricted execution framework. |
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rfc822 | Deprecated:
Parse 2822 style mail messages. |
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rlcompleter |
Python identifier completion, suitable for the GNU readline library. |
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robotparser |
Loads a robots.txt file and answers questions about
fetchability of other URLs. |
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runpy |
Locate and run Python modules without importing them first. |
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sched |
General purpose event scheduler. |
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select |
Wait for I/O completion on multiple streams. |
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sets | Deprecated:
Implementation of sets of unique elements. |
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sgmllib | Deprecated:
Only as much of an SGML parser as needed to parse HTML. |
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sha | Deprecated:
NIST's secure hash algorithm, SHA. |
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shelve |
Python object persistence. |
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shlex |
Simple lexical analysis for Unix shell-like languages. |
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shutil |
High-level file operations, including copying. |
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signal |
Set handlers for asynchronous events. |
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SimpleHTTPServer |
This module provides a basic request handler for HTTP servers. |
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SimpleXMLRPCServer |
Basic XML-RPC server implementation. |
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site |
A standard way to reference site-specific modules. |
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smtpd |
A SMTP server implementation in Python. |
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smtplib |
SMTP protocol client (requires sockets). |
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sndhdr |
Determine type of a sound file. |
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socket |
Low-level networking interface. |
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SocketServer |
A framework for network servers. |
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sqlite3 |
A DB-API 2.0 implementation using SQLite 3.x. |
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ssl |
SSL wrapper for socket objects |
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stat |
Utilities for interpreting the results of os.stat(), os.lstat() and os.fstat(). |
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statvfs | Deprecated:
Constants for interpreting the result of os.statvfs(). |
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string |
Common string operations. |
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StringIO |
Read and write strings as if they were files. |
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stringprep | Deprecated:
String preparation, as per RFC 3453 |
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struct |
Interpret strings as packed binary data. |
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subprocess |
Subprocess management. |
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sunau |
Provide an interface to the Sun AU sound format. |
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symbol |
Constants representing internal nodes of the parse tree. |
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symtable |
Interface to the compiler's internal symbol tables. |
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sys |
Access system-specific parameters and functions. |
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sysconfig |
Python's configuration information |
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tabnanny |
Tool for detecting white space related problems in Python source files in a
directory tree. |
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tarfile |
Read and write tar-format archive files. |
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telnetlib |
Telnet client class. |
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tempfile |
Generate temporary files and directories. |
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test |
Regression tests package containing the testing suite for Python. |
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test.test_support |
Support for Python regression tests. |
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textwrap |
Text wrapping and filling |
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thread |
Create multiple threads of control within one interpreter. |
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threading |
Higher-level threading interface. |
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time |
Time access and conversions. |
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timeit |
Measure the execution time of small code snippets. |
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token |
Constants representing terminal nodes of the parse tree. |
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tokenize |
Lexical scanner for Python source code. |
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trace |
Trace or track Python statement execution. |
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traceback |
Print or retrieve a stack traceback. |
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ttk |
Tk themed widget set |
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types |
Names for built-in types. |
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unicodedata |
Access the Unicode Database. |
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unittest |
Unit testing framework for Python. |
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urllib |
Open an arbitrary network resource by URL (requires sockets). |
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urllib2 |
Next generation URL opening library. |
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urlparse |
Parse URLs into or assemble them from components. |
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user | Deprecated:
A standard way to reference user-specific modules. |
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UserDict |
Class wrapper for dictionary objects. |
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UserList |
Class wrapper for list objects. |
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UserString |
Class wrapper for string objects. |
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uu |
Encode and decode files in uuencode format. |
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uuid |
UUID objects (universally unique identifiers) according to RFC 4122 |
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warnings |
Issue warning messages and control their disposition. |
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wave |
Provide an interface to the WAV sound format. |
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weakref |
Support for weak references and weak dictionaries. |
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webbrowser |
Easy-to-use controller for Web browsers. |
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whichdb |
Guess which DBM-style module created a given database. |
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wsgiref |
WSGI Utilities and Reference Implementation. |
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wsgiref.handlers |
WSGI server/gateway base classes. |
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wsgiref.headers |
WSGI response header tools. |
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wsgiref.simple_server |
A simple WSGI HTTP server. |
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wsgiref.util |
WSGI environment utilities. |
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wsgiref.validate |
WSGI conformance checker. |
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xdrlib |
Encoders and decoders for the External Data Representation (XDR). |
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xml |
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xml.dom |
Document Object Model API for Python. |
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xml.dom.minidom |
Lightweight Document Object Model (DOM) implementation. |
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xml.dom.pulldom |
Support for building partial DOM trees from SAX events. |
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xml.etree.ElementTree |
Implementation of the ElementTree API. |
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xml.parsers.expat |
An interface to the Expat non-validating XML parser. |
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xml.sax |
Package containing SAX2 base classes and convenience functions. |
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xml.sax.handler |
Base classes for SAX event handlers. |
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xml.sax.saxutils |
Convenience functions and classes for use with SAX. |
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xml.sax.xmlreader |
Interface which SAX-compliant XML parsers must implement. |
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xmlrpclib |
XML-RPC client access. |
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zipfile |
Read and write ZIP-format archive files. |
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zipimport |
support for importing Python modules from ZIP archives. |
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zlib |
Low-level interface to compression and decompression routines compatible with
gzip. |