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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