18. Python Language Services
Python provides a number of modules to assist in working with the Python language. These module support tokenizing, parsing, syntax analysis, bytecode disassembly, and various other facilities.
These modules include:
| parser | Access parse trees for Python source code. | |
| symbol | Constants representing internal nodes of the parse tree. | |
| token | Constants representing terminal nodes of the parse tree. | |
| keyword | Test whether a string is a keyword in Python. | |
| tokenize | Lexical scanner for Python source code. | |
| tabnanny | Tool for detecting white space related problems in Python source files in a directory tree. | |
| pyclbr | Supports information extraction for a Python class browser. | |
| py_compile | Compile Python source files to byte-code files. | |
| compileall | Tools for byte-compiling all Python source files in a directory tree. | |
| dis | Disassembler for Python byte code. | |
| pickletools | Contains extensive comments about the pickle protocols and pickle-machine opcodes, as well as some useful functions. | |
| distutils | Support for building and installing Python modules into an existing Python installation. |
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Release 2.4.1, documentation updated on 30 March 2005.