Python Standard Library

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By Fredrik Lundh

Publisher: O'Reilly Media

Released: May 2001

Pages: 304

Chapter 1 Core Modules
1. Introduction
2. The _ _builtin_ _ Module
3. The exceptions Module
4. The os Module
5. The os.path Module
6. The stat Module
7. The string Module
8. The re Module
9. The math Module
10. The cmath Module
11. The operator Module
12. The copy Module
13. The sys Module
14. The atexit Module
15. The time Module
16. The types Module
17. The gc Module
Chapter 2 More Standard Modules
1. Overview
2. The fileinput Module
3. The shutil Module
4. The tempfile Module
5. The StringIO Module
6. The cStringIO Module
7. The mmap Module
8. The UserDict Module
9. The UserList Module
10. The UserString Module
11. The traceback Module
12. The errno Module
13. The getopt Module
14. The getpass Module
15. The glob Module
16. The fnmatch Module
17. The random Module
18. The whrandom Module
19. The md5 Module
20. The sha Module
21. The crypt Module
22. The rotor Module
23. The zlib Module
24. The code Module
Chapter 3 Threads and Processes
1. Overview
2. The threading Module
3. The Queue Module
4. The thread Module
5. The commands Module
6. The pipes Module
7. The popen2 Module
8. The signal Module
Chapter 4 Data Representation
1. Overview
2. The array Module
3. The struct Module
4. The xdrlib Module
5. The marshal Module
6. The pickle Module
7. The cPickle Module
8. The copy_reg Module
9. The pprint Module
10. The repr Module
11. The base64 Module
12. The binhex Module
13. The quopri Module
14. The uu Module
15. The binascii Module
Chapter 5 File Formats
1. Overview
2. The xmllib Module
3. The xml.parsers.expat Module
4. The sgmllib Module
5. The htmllib Module
6. The htmlentitydefs Module
7. The formatter Module
8. The ConfigParser Module
9. The netrc Module
10. The shlex Module
11. The zipfile Module
12. The gzip Module
Chapter 6 Mail and News Message Processing
1. Overview
2. The rfc822 Module
3. The mimetools Module
4. The MimeWriter Module
5. The mailbox Module
6. The mailcap Module
7. The mimetypes Module
8. The packmail Module
9. The mimify Module
10. The multifile Module
Chapter 7 Network Protocols
1. Overview
2. The socket Module
3. The select Module
4. The asyncore Module
5. The asynchat Module
6. The urllib Module
7. The urlparse Module
8. The cookie Module
9. The robotparser Module
10. The ftplib Module
11. The gopherlib Module
12. The httplib Module
13. The poplib Module
14. The imaplib Module
15. The smtplib Module
16. The telnetlib Module
17. The nntplib Module
18. The SocketServer Module
19. The BaseHTTPServer Module
20. The SimpleHTTPServer Module
21. The CGIHTTPServer Module
22. The cgi Module
23. The webbrowser Module
Chapter 8 Internationalization
1. The locale Module
2. The unicodedata Module
3. The ucnhash Module
Chapter 9 Multimedia Modules
1. Overview
2. The imghdr Module
3. The sndhdr module
4. The whatsound Module
5. The aifc Module
6. The sunau Module
7. The sunaudio Module
8. The wave Module
9. The audiodev Module
10. The winsound Module
11. The colorsys Module
Chapter 10 Data Storage
1. Overview
2. The anydbm Module
3. The whichdb Module
4. The shelve Module
5. The dbhash Module
6. The dbm Module
7. The dumbdbm Module
8. The gdbm Module
Chapter 11 Tools and Utilities
1. The dis Module
2. The pdb Module
3. The bdb Module
4. The profile Module
5. The pstats Module
6. The tabnanny Module
Chapter 12 Platform-Specific Modules
1. Overview
2. The fcntl Module
3. The pwd Module
4. The grp Module
5. The nis Module
6. The curses Module
7. The termios Module
8. The tty Module
9. The resource Module
10. The syslog Module
11. The msvcrt Module
12. The nt Module
13. The _winreg Module
14. The posix Module
Chapter 13 Implementation Support Modules
1. The dospath Module
2. The macpath Module
3. The ntpath Module
4. The posixpath Module
5. The strop Module
6. The imp Module
7. The new Module
8. The pre Module
9. The sre Module
10. The py_compile Module
11. The compileall Module
12. The ihooks Module
13. The linecache Module
14. The macurl2path Module
15. The nturl2path module
16. The tokenize Module
17. The keyword Module
18. The parser Module
19. The symbol Module
20. The token Module
Chapter 14 Other Modules
1. Overview
2. The pyclbr Module
3. The filecmp Module
4. The cmd Module
5. The rexec Module
6. The Bastion Module
7. The readline Module
8. The rlcompleter Module
9. The statvfs Module
10. The calendar Module
11. The sched Module
12. The statcache Module
13. The grep Module
14. The dircache Module
15. The dircmp Module
16. The cmp Module
17. The cmpcache Module
18. The util Module
19. The soundex Module
20. The timing Module
21. The posixfile Module
22. The bisect Module
23. The knee Module
24. The tzparse Module
25. The regex Module
26. The regsub Module
27. The reconvert Module
28. The regex_syntax Module
29. The find Module

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Chapter 1 Core Modules

Introduction

The _ _builtin_ _ Module

The exceptions Module

The os Module

The os.path Module

The stat Module

The string Module

The re Module

The math Module

The cmath Module

The operator Module

The copy Module

The sys Module

The atexit Module

The time Module

The types Module

The gc Module

Chapter 2 More Standard Modules

Overview

The fileinput Module

The shutil Module

The tempfile Module

The StringIO Module

The cStringIO Module

The mmap Module

The UserDict Module

The UserList Module

The UserString Module

The traceback Module

The errno Module

The getopt Module

The getpass Module

The glob Module

The fnmatch Module

The random Module

The whrandom Module

The md5 Module

The sha Module

The crypt Module

The rotor Module

The zlib Module

The code Module

Chapter 3 Threads and Processes

Overview

The threading Module

The Queue Module

The thread Module

The commands Module

The pipes Module

The popen2 Module

The signal Module

Chapter 4 Data Representation

Overview

The array Module

The struct Module

The xdrlib Module

The marshal Module

The pickle Module

The cPickle Module

The copy_reg Module

The pprint Module

The repr Module

The base64 Module

The binhex Module

The quopri Module

The uu Module

The binascii Module

Chapter 5 File Formats

Overview

The xmllib Module

The xml.parsers.expat Module

The sgmllib Module

The htmllib Module

The htmlentitydefs Module

The formatter Module

The ConfigParser Module

The netrc Module

The shlex Module

The zipfile Module