Python Standard Library

Fredrik Lundh is a principal of Secret Labs, Inc., the creators of PythonWare, an integrated development environment (IDE) for Python. He is an expert on the use of Python with images and graphics and is also the creator of the Python Imaging Library (PIL). He is an active member of the Python community and a frequent contributor to the Python newsgroups.

Preface 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 The gzip Module Chapter 6. Mail and News Message Processing Overview The rfc822 Module The mimetools Module The MimeWriter Module The mailbox Module The mailcap Module The mimetypes Module The packmail Module The mimify Module The multifile Module Chapter 7. Network Protocols Overview The socket Module The select Module The asyncore Module The asynchat Module The urllib Module The urlparse Module The cookie Module The robotparser Module The ftplib Module The gopherlib Module The httplib Module The poplib Module The imaplib Module The smtplib Module The telnetlib Module The nntplib Module The SocketServer Module The BaseHTTPServer Module The SimpleHTTPServer Module The CGIHTTPServer Module The cgi Module The webbrowser Module Chapter 8. Internationalization The locale Module The unicodedata Module The ucnhash Module Chapter 9. Multimedia Modules Overview The imghdr Module The sndhdr module The whatsound Module The aifc Module The sunau Module The sunaudio Module The wave Module The audiodev Module The winsound Module The colorsys Module Chapter 10. Data Storage Overview The anydbm Module The whichdb Module The shelve Module The dbhash Module The dbm Module The dumbdbm Module The gdbm Module Chapter 11. Tools and Utilities The dis Module The pdb Module The bdb Module The profile Module The pstats Module The tabnanny Module Chapter 12. PlatformSpecific Modules Overview The fcntl Module The pwd Module The grp Module The nis Module The curses Module The termios Module The tty Module The resource Module The syslog Module The msvcrt Module The nt Module The _winreg Module The posix Module Chapter 13. Implementation Support Modules The dospath Module The macpath Module The ntpath Module The posixpath Module The strop Module The imp Module The new Module The pre Module The sre Module The py_compile Module The compileall Module The ihooks Module The linecache Module The macurl2path Module The nturl2path module The tokenize Module The keyword Module The parser Module The symbol Module The token Module Chapter 14. Other Modules Overview The pyclbr Module The filecmp Module The cmd Module The rexec Module The Bastion Module The readline Module The rlcompleter Module The statvfs Module The calendar Module The sched Module The statcache Module The grep Module The dircache Module The dircmp Module The cmp Module The cmpcache Module The util Module The soundex Module The timing Module The posixfile Module The bisect Module The knee Module The tzparse Module The regex Module The regsub Module The reconvert Module The regex_syntax Module The find Module Index