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1 \chapter{Undocumented Modules}
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3 Here's a quick listing of modules that are currently undocumented, but
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4 that should be documented. Feel free to contribute documentation for
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5 them! (The idea and most contents for this chapter were taken from a
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6 posting by Fredrik Lundh; I have revised some modules' status.)
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9 \section{Fundamental, and pretty straightforward to document}
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11 ni.py -- New import scheme with package support
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14 \section{Frameworks; somewhat harder to document, but
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17 Tkinter.py -- Interface to Tcl/Tk for graphical user interfaces;
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20 BaseHTTPServer.py -- HTTP server base class
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22 CGIHTTPServer.py -- CGI-savvy HTTP Server
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24 SimpleHTTPServer.py -- Simple HTTP Server
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27 \section{Stuff useful to a lot of people, including the CGI crowd}
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29 MimeWriter.py -- Generic MIME writer
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31 mimify.py -- Mimification and unmimification of mail messages
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33 multifile.py -- make each part of a multipart message ``feel'' like
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38 \section{Miscellaneous useful utilities}
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40 Some of these are very old and/or not very robust; marked with ``hmm''.
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42 calendar.py -- Calendar printing functions
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44 cmp.py -- Efficiently compare files
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46 cmpcache.py -- Efficiently compare files (uses statcache)
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48 dircache.py -- like os.listdir, but caches results
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50 dircmp.py -- class to build directory diff tools on
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52 linecache.py -- Cache lines from files (used by pdb)
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54 pipes.py -- Conversion pipeline templates (hmm)
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58 statcache.py -- Maintain a cache of file stats
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60 colorsys.py -- Conversion between RGB and other color systems
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62 dbhash.py -- (g)dbm-like wrapper for bsdhash.hashopen
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64 mhlib.py -- MH interface
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66 pty.py -- Pseudo terminal utilities
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68 tty.py -- Terminal utilities
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70 cmd.py -- build line-oriented command interpreters (used by pdb)
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72 bdb.py -- A generic Python debugger base class (used by pdb)
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74 ihooks.py -- Import hook support (for ni and rexec)
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76 pprint.py -- support to pretty-print lists, tuples, & dictionaries recursively
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79 \section{Parsing Python}
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81 (One could argue that these should all be documented together with the
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82 parser module; in fact the parser module section already references
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83 the token and symbol modules.)
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85 token.py -- Tokens (from ``token.h'')
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87 symbol.py -- Symbols (from ``graminit.h'')
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89 keyword.py -- Keywords (from ``graminit.c'')
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91 tokenize.py -- regular expression that recognizes Python tokens
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93 pyclbr.py -- Parse a Python file and retrieve classes and methods
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96 \section{Platform specific modules}
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98 ntpath.py -- equivalent of posixpath on 32-bit Windows
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100 dospath.py -- equivalent of posixpath on MS-DOS
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102 macpath.py -- equivalent of posixpath on Mac
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105 \section{Code objects and files, debugger etc.}
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107 compileall.py -- force "compilation" of all .py files in a directory
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109 py_compile.py -- "compile" a .py file to a .pyc file
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111 codehack.py -- extract a function name from a code object
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113 dis.py -- Disassembler for Python bytecode objects
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115 repr.py -- Redo the `...` (representation) but with limits on most
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118 copy_reg.py -- helper to provide extensibility for pickle/cPickle
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121 \section{Multimedia}
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123 audiodev.py -- Plays audio files
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125 sunau.py -- parse Sun and NeXT audio files
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127 sunaudio.py -- interpret sun audio headers
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129 toaiff.py -- Convert "arbitrary" sound files to AIFF files
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131 sndhdr.py -- recognizing sound files
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133 wave.py -- parse WAVE files
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135 whatsound.py -- recognizing sound files
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138 \section{Oddities}
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140 These modules are probably also obsolete, or just not very useful.
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142 Queue.py -- A multi-producer, multi-consumer queue
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144 bisect.py -- Bisection algorithms
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146 dump.py -- Print python code that reconstructs a variable
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148 emacs.py -- Execute Emacs code from a Python interpreter
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150 find.py -- find files matching pattern in directory tree
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152 fpformat.py -- General floating point formatting functions -- obsolete
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154 grep.py -- grep
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156 mutex.py -- Mutual exclusion -- for use with module sched
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158 packmail.py -- create a self-unpacking \UNIX{} shell archive
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160 poly.py -- Polynomials
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162 sched.py -- event scheduler class
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164 shutil.py -- utility functions usable in a shell-like program
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165
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166 util.py -- useful functions that don't fit elsewhere
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167
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168 zmod.py -- Compute properties of mathematical "fields"
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169
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170 tzparse.py -- Parse a timezone specification (unfinished)
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173 \section{Obsolete}
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175 newdir.py -- New dir() function (the standard dir() is now just as good)
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177 addpack.py -- standard support for "packages" (use ni instead)
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179 fmt.py -- text formatting abstractions (too slow)
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181 Para.py -- helper for fmt.py
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182
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183 lockfile.py -- wrapper around FCNTL file locking (use
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184 fcntl.lockf/flock intead)
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185
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186 tb.py -- Print tracebacks, with a dump of local variables (use
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187 pdb.pm() or traceback.py instead)
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189
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190 \section{Extension modules}
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192 bsddbmodule.c -- Interface to the Berkeley DB interface (yet another
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193 dbm clone).
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195 cursesmodule.c -- Curses interface.
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197 dbhashmodule.c -- Obsolete; this functionality is now provided by
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198 bsddbmodule.c.
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199
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200 dlmodule.c -- A highly experimental and dangerous device for calling
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201 arbitrary C functions in arbitrary shared libraries.
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202
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203 newmodule.c -- Tommy Burnette's `new' module (creates new empty
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204 objects of certain kinds) -- dangerous.
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205
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206 nismodule.c -- NIS (a.k.a. Sun's Yellow Pages) interface.
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208 timingmodule.c -- Measure time intervals to high resolution (obsolete
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209 -- use time.clock() instead).
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211 resource.c -- Interface to getrusage() and friends.
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213 stdwinmodule.c -- Interface to STDWIN (an old, unsupported
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214 platform-independent GUI package). Obsolete; use Tkinter for a
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215 platform-independent GUI instead.
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217 The following are SGI specific:
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219 clmodule.c -- Interface to the SGI compression library.
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221 svmodule.c -- Interface to the ``simple video'' board on SGI Indigo
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222 (obsolete hardware).