14. Generic Operating System Services
From Python 2.5
14. Generic Operating System Services
The modules described in this chapter provide interfaces to operating system features that are available on (almost) all operating systems, such as files and a clock. The interfaces are generally modeled after the Unix or C interfaces, but they are available on most other systems as well. Here's an overview:
| os | Miscellaneous operating system interfaces. | |
| time | Time access and conversions. | |
| optparse | More convenient, flexible, and powerful command-line parsing library. | |
| getopt | Portable parser for command line options; support both short and long option names. | |
| logging | Logging module for Python based on PEP 282. | |
| getpass | Portable reading of passwords and retrieval of the userid. | |
| curses | An interface to the curses library, providing portable terminal handling. | |
| curses.textpad | Emacs-like input editing in a curses window. | |
| curses.wrapper | Terminal configuration wrapper for curses programs. | |
| curses.ascii | Constants and set-membership functions for ASCII characters. | |
| curses.panel | A panel stack extension that adds depth to curses windows. | |
| platform | Retrieves as much platform identifying data as possible. | |
| errno | Standard errno system symbols. | |
| ctypes | A foreign function library for Python. |
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Release 2.5, documentation updated on 19th September, 2006.