| 
     
     __builtin__ | 
     The module that provides the built-in namespace. | 
      | 
     
     __future__ | 
     Future statement definitions | 
      | 
     
     __main__ | 
     The environment where the top-level script is run. | 
      | 
     
     _winreg (Windows) | 
     Routines and objects for manipulating the Windows registry. | 
 |   |  | 
    | A |  | 
      | 
     
     abc | 
     Abstract base classes according to PEP 3119. | 
      | 
     
     aepack (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Conversion between Python variables and AppleEvent data containers. | 
      | 
     
     aetools (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Basic support for sending Apple Events | 
      | 
     
     aetypes (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Python representation of the Apple Event Object Model. | 
      | 
     
     aifc | 
     Read and write audio files in AIFF or AIFC format. | 
      | 
     
     al (IRIX) | Deprecated:
     Audio functions on the SGI. | 
      | 
     
     AL (IRIX) | Deprecated:
     Constants used with the al module. | 
      | 
     
     anydbm | 
     Generic interface to DBM-style database modules. | 
      | 
     
     applesingle (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Rudimentary decoder for AppleSingle format files. | 
      | 
     
     array | 
     Space efficient arrays of uniformly typed numeric values. | 
      | 
     
     ast | 
     Abstract Syntax Tree classes and manipulation. | 
      | 
     
     asynchat | 
     Support for asynchronous command/response protocols. | 
      | 
     
     asyncore | 
     A base class for developing asynchronous socket handling
services. | 
      | 
     
     atexit | 
     Register and execute cleanup functions. | 
      | 
     
     audioop | 
     Manipulate raw audio data. | 
      | 
     
     autoGIL (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Global Interpreter Lock handling in event loops. | 
 |   |  | 
    | B |  | 
      | 
     
     base64 | 
     RFC 3548: Base16, Base32, Base64 Data Encodings | 
      | 
     
     BaseHTTPServer | 
     Basic HTTP server (base class for SimpleHTTPServer and CGIHTTPServer). | 
      | 
     
     Bastion | Deprecated:
     Providing restricted access to objects. | 
      | 
     
     bdb | 
     Debugger framework. | 
      | 
     
     binascii | 
     Tools for converting between binary and various ASCII-encoded binary
representations. | 
      | 
     
     binhex | 
     Encode and decode files in binhex4 format. | 
      | 
     
     bisect | 
     Array bisection algorithms for binary searching. | 
      | 
     
     bsddb | 
     Interface to Berkeley DB database library | 
      | 
     
     buildtools (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Helper module for BuildApplet, BuildApplication and macfreeze. | 
      | 
     
     bz2 | 
     Interface to compression and decompression routines compatible with bzip2. | 
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    | C |  | 
      | 
     
     calendar | 
     Functions for working with calendars, including some emulation of the Unix cal
program. | 
       | 
     
     Carbon | 
      | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.AE (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the Apple Events toolbox. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.AH (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the Apple Help manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.App (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the Appearance Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Appearance (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Constant definitions for the interface to the Appearance Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.CarbonEvents (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Constants for the interface to the Carbon Event Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.CarbonEvt (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the Carbon Event Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.CF (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the Core Foundation. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.CG (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to Core Graphics. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Cm (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the Component Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Components (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Constants for the interface to the Component Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.ControlAccessor (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Accessor functions for the interface to the Control Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Controls (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Constants for the interface to the Control Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.CoreFounation (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Constants for the interface to CoreFoundation. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.CoreGraphics (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Constants for the interface to CoreGraphics. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Ctl (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the Control Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Dialogs (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Constants for the interface to the Dialog Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Dlg (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the Dialog Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Drag (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the Drag and Drop Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Dragconst (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Constants for the interface to the Drag and Drop Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Events (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Constants for the interface to the classic Event Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Evt (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the classic Event Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.File (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the File Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Files (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Constants for the interface to the File Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Fm (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the Font Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Folder (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the Folder Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Folders (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Constants for the interface to the Folder Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Fonts (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Constants for the interface to the Font Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Help (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the Carbon Help Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.IBCarbon (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the Carbon InterfaceBuilder support libraries. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.IBCarbonRuntime (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Constants for the interface to the Carbon InterfaceBuilder support libraries. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Icns (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the Carbon Icon Manager | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Icons (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Constants for the interface to the Carbon Icon Manager | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Launch (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the Carbon Launch Services. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.LaunchServices (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Constants for the interface to the Carbon Launch Services. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.List (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the List Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Lists (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Constants for the interface to the List Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.MacHelp (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Constants for the interface to the Carbon Help Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.MediaDescr (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Parsers and generators for Quicktime Media descriptors | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Menu (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the Menu Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Menus (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Constants for the interface to the Menu Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Mlte (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the MultiLingual Text Editor. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.OSA (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the Carbon OSA Library. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.OSAconst (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Constants for the interface to the Carbon OSA Library. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Qd (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the QuickDraw toolbox. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Qdoffs (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the QuickDraw Offscreen APIs. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.QDOffscreen (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Constants for the interface to the QuickDraw Offscreen APIs. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Qt (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the QuickTime toolbox. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.QuickDraw (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Constants for the interface to the QuickDraw toolbox. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.QuickTime (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Constants for the interface to the QuickTime toolbox. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Res (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the Resource Manager and Handles. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Resources (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Constants for the interface to the Resource Manager and Handles. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Scrap (Mac) | Deprecated:
     The Scrap Manager provides basic services for implementing cut & paste and
clipboard operations. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Snd (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the Sound Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Sound (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Constants for the interface to the Sound Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.TE (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to TextEdit. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.TextEdit (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Constants for the interface to TextEdit. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Win (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the Window Manager. | 
      | 
        
     Carbon.Windows (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Constants for the interface to the Window Manager. | 
      | 
     
     cd (IRIX) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the CD-ROM on Silicon Graphics systems. | 
      | 
     
     cfmfile (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Code Fragment Resource module. | 
      | 
     
     cgi | 
     Helpers for running Python scripts via the Common Gateway Interface. | 
      | 
     
     CGIHTTPServer | 
     This module provides a request handler for HTTP servers which can run CGI
scripts. | 
      | 
     
     cgitb | 
     Configurable traceback handler for CGI scripts. | 
      | 
     
     chunk | 
     Module to read IFF chunks. | 
      | 
     
     cmath | 
     Mathematical functions for complex numbers. | 
      | 
     
     cmd | 
     Build line-oriented command interpreters. | 
      | 
     
     code | 
     Facilities to implement read-eval-print loops. | 
      | 
     
     codecs | 
     Encode and decode data and streams. | 
      | 
     
     codeop | 
     Compile (possibly incomplete) Python code. | 
      | 
     
     collections | 
     High-performance datatypes | 
      | 
     
     ColorPicker (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to the standard color selection dialog. | 
      | 
     
     colorsys | 
     Conversion functions between RGB and other color systems. | 
      | 
     
     commands (Unix) | 
     Utility functions for running external commands. | 
      | 
     
     compileall | 
     Tools for byte-compiling all Python source files in a directory tree. | 
       | 
     
     compiler | Deprecated:
     Python code compiler written in Python. | 
      | 
        
     compiler.ast | 
      | 
      | 
        
     compiler.visitor | 
      | 
      | 
     
     ConfigParser | 
     Configuration file parser. | 
      | 
     
     contextlib | 
     Utilities for with-statement contexts. | 
      | 
     
     Cookie | 
     Support for HTTP state management (cookies). | 
      | 
     
     cookielib | 
     Classes for automatic handling of HTTP cookies. | 
      | 
     
     copy | 
     Shallow and deep copy operations. | 
      | 
     
     copy_reg | 
     Register pickle support functions. | 
      | 
     
     cPickle | 
     Faster version of pickle, but not subclassable. | 
      | 
     
     cProfile | 
     Python profiler | 
      | 
     
     crypt (Unix) | 
     The crypt() function used to check Unix passwords. | 
      | 
     
     cStringIO | 
     Faster version of StringIO, but not subclassable. | 
      | 
     
     csv | 
     Write and read tabular data to and from delimited files. | 
      | 
     
     ctypes | 
     A foreign function library for Python. | 
       | 
     
     curses (Unix) | 
     An interface to the curses library, providing portable terminal
handling. | 
      | 
        
     curses.ascii | 
     Constants and set-membership functions for ASCII characters. | 
      | 
        
     curses.panel | 
     A panel stack extension that adds depth to  curses windows. | 
      | 
        
     curses.textpad | 
     Emacs-like input editing in a curses window. | 
      | 
        
     curses.wrapper | 
     Terminal configuration wrapper for curses programs. | 
 |   |  | 
    | D |  | 
      | 
     
     datetime | 
     Basic date and time types. | 
      | 
     
     dbhash | 
     DBM-style interface to the BSD database library. | 
      | 
     
     dbm (Unix) | 
     The standard "database" interface, based on ndbm. | 
      | 
     
     decimal | 
     Implementation of the General Decimal Arithmetic  Specification. | 
      | 
     
     DEVICE (IRIX) | Deprecated:
     Constants used with the gl module. | 
      | 
     
     difflib | 
     Helpers for computing differences between objects. | 
      | 
     
     dircache | Deprecated:
     Return directory listing, with cache mechanism. | 
      | 
     
     dis | 
     Disassembler for Python bytecode. | 
       | 
     
     distutils | 
     Support for building and installing Python modules into an existing Python
installation. | 
      | 
        
     distutils.archive_util | 
     Utility functions for creating archive files (tarballs, zip files, ...) | 
      | 
        
     distutils.bcppcompiler | 
      | 
      | 
        
     distutils.ccompiler | 
     Abstract CCompiler class | 
      | 
        
     distutils.cmd | 
     This module provides the abstract base class Command. This class is subclassed
by the modules in the distutils.command  subpackage. | 
      | 
        
     distutils.command | 
     This subpackage contains one module for each standard Distutils command. | 
      | 
        
     distutils.command.bdist | 
     Build a binary installer for a package | 
      | 
        
     distutils.command.bdist_dumb | 
     Build a "dumb" installer - a simple archive of files | 
      | 
        
     distutils.command.bdist_msi | 
     Build a binary distribution as a Windows MSI file | 
      | 
        
     distutils.command.bdist_packager | 
     Abstract base class for packagers | 
      | 
        
     distutils.command.bdist_rpm | 
     Build a binary distribution as a Redhat RPM and SRPM | 
      | 
        
     distutils.command.bdist_wininst | 
     Build a Windows installer | 
      | 
        
     distutils.command.build | 
     Build all files of a package | 
      | 
        
     distutils.command.build_clib | 
     Build any C libraries in a package | 
      | 
        
     distutils.command.build_ext | 
     Build any extensions in a package | 
      | 
        
     distutils.command.build_py | 
     Build the .py/.pyc files of a package | 
      | 
        
     distutils.command.build_scripts | 
     Build the scripts of a package | 
      | 
        
     distutils.command.clean | 
     Clean a package build area | 
      | 
        
     distutils.command.config | 
     Perform package configuration | 
      | 
        
     distutils.command.install | 
     Install a package | 
      | 
        
     distutils.command.install_data | 
     Install data files from a package | 
      | 
        
     distutils.command.install_headers | 
     Install C/C++ header files from a package | 
      | 
        
     distutils.command.install_lib | 
     Install library files from a package | 
      | 
        
     distutils.command.install_scripts | 
     Install script files from a package | 
      | 
        
     distutils.command.register | 
     Register a module with the Python Package Index | 
      | 
        
     distutils.command.sdist | 
     Build a source distribution | 
      | 
        
     distutils.core | 
     The core Distutils functionality | 
      | 
        
     distutils.cygwinccompiler | 
      | 
      | 
        
     distutils.debug | 
     Provides the debug flag for distutils | 
      | 
        
     distutils.dep_util | 
     Utility functions for simple dependency checking | 
      | 
        
     distutils.dir_util | 
     Utility functions for operating on directories and directory trees | 
      | 
        
     distutils.dist | 
     Provides the Distribution class, which represents the module distribution being
built/installed/distributed | 
      | 
        
     distutils.emxccompiler | 
     OS/2 EMX Compiler support | 
      | 
        
     distutils.errors | 
     Provides standard distutils exceptions | 
      | 
        
     distutils.extension | 
     Provides the Extension class, used to describe C/C++ extension modules in setup
scripts | 
      | 
        
     distutils.fancy_getopt | 
     Additional getopt functionality | 
      | 
        
     distutils.file_util | 
     Utility functions for operating on single files | 
      | 
        
     distutils.filelist | 
     The FileList class, used for poking about the file system and
building lists of files. | 
      | 
        
     distutils.log | 
     A simple logging mechanism, 282-style | 
      | 
        
     distutils.msvccompiler | 
     Microsoft Compiler | 
      | 
        
     distutils.mwerkscompiler | 
     Metrowerks CodeWarrior support | 
      | 
        
     distutils.spawn | 
     Provides the spawn() function | 
      | 
        
     distutils.sysconfig | 
     Low-level access to configuration information of the Python interpreter. | 
      | 
        
     distutils.text_file | 
     provides the TextFile class, a simple interface to text files | 
      | 
        
     distutils.unixccompiler | 
     UNIX C Compiler | 
      | 
        
     distutils.util | 
     Miscellaneous other utility functions | 
      | 
        
     distutils.version | 
     implements classes that represent module version numbers. | 
      | 
     
     dl (Unix) | Deprecated:
     Call C functions in shared objects. | 
      | 
     
     doctest | 
     Test pieces of code within docstrings. | 
      | 
     
     DocXMLRPCServer | 
     Self-documenting XML-RPC server implementation. | 
      | 
     
     dumbdbm | 
     Portable implementation of the simple DBM interface. | 
      | 
     
     dummy_thread | 
     Drop-in replacement for the thread module. | 
      | 
     
     dummy_threading | 
     Drop-in replacement for the threading module. | 
 |   |  | 
    | E |  | 
      | 
     
     EasyDialogs (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Basic Macintosh dialogs. | 
       | 
     
     email | 
     Package supporting the parsing, manipulating, and generating email messages,
including MIME documents. | 
      | 
        
     email.charset | 
     Character Sets | 
      | 
        
     email.encoders | 
     Encoders for email message payloads. | 
      | 
        
     email.errors | 
     The exception classes used by the email package. | 
      | 
        
     email.generator | 
     Generate flat text email messages from a message structure. | 
      | 
        
     email.header | 
     Representing non-ASCII headers | 
      | 
        
     email.iterators | 
     Iterate over a  message object tree. | 
      | 
        
     email.message | 
     The base class representing email messages. | 
      | 
        
     email.mime | 
     Build MIME messages. | 
      | 
        
     email.parser | 
     Parse flat text email messages to produce a message object structure. | 
      | 
        
     email.utils | 
     Miscellaneous email package utilities. | 
       | 
     
     encodings | 
      | 
      | 
        
     encodings.idna | 
     Internationalized Domain Names implementation | 
      | 
        
     encodings.utf_8_sig | 
     UTF-8 codec with BOM signature | 
      | 
     
     errno | 
     Standard errno system symbols. | 
      | 
     
     exceptions | 
     Standard exception classes. | 
 |   |  | 
    | F |  | 
      | 
     
     fcntl (Unix) | 
     The fcntl() and ioctl() system calls. | 
      | 
     
     filecmp | 
     Compare files efficiently. | 
      | 
     
     fileinput | 
     Loop over standard input or a list of files. | 
      | 
     
     findertools (Mac) | 
     Wrappers around the finder's Apple Events interface. | 
      | 
     
     FL (IRIX) | Deprecated:
     Constants used with the fl module. | 
      | 
     
     fl (IRIX) | Deprecated:
     FORMS library for applications with graphical user interfaces. | 
      | 
     
     flp (IRIX) | Deprecated:
     Functions for loading stored FORMS designs. | 
      | 
     
     fm (IRIX) | Deprecated:
     Font Manager interface for SGI workstations. | 
      | 
     
     fnmatch | 
     Unix shell style filename pattern matching. | 
      | 
     
     formatter | 
     Generic output formatter and device interface. | 
      | 
     
     fpectl (Unix) | 
     Provide control for floating point exception handling. | 
      | 
     
     fpformat | Deprecated:
     General floating point formatting functions. | 
      | 
     
     fractions | 
     Rational numbers. | 
      | 
     
     FrameWork (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interactive application framework. | 
      | 
     
     ftplib | 
     FTP protocol client (requires sockets). | 
      | 
     
     functools | 
     Higher order functions and operations on callable objects. | 
      | 
     
     future_builtins | 
      | 
 |   |  | 
    | G |  | 
      | 
     
     gc | 
     Interface to the cycle-detecting garbage collector. | 
      | 
     
     gdbm (Unix) | 
     GNU's reinterpretation of dbm. | 
      | 
     
     gensuitemodule (Mac) | 
     Create a stub package from an OSA dictionary | 
      | 
     
     getopt | 
     Portable parser for command line options; support both short and long option
names. | 
      | 
     
     getpass | 
     Portable reading of passwords and retrieval of the userid. | 
      | 
     
     gettext | 
     Multilingual internationalization services. | 
      | 
     
     gl (IRIX) | Deprecated:
     Functions from the Silicon Graphics Graphics Library. | 
      | 
     
     GL (IRIX) | Deprecated:
     Constants used with the gl module. | 
      | 
     
     glob | 
     Unix shell style pathname pattern expansion. | 
      | 
     
     grp (Unix) | 
     The group database (getgrnam() and friends). | 
      | 
     
     gzip | 
     Interfaces for gzip compression and decompression using file objects. | 
 |   |  | 
    | H |  | 
      | 
     
     hashlib | 
     Secure hash and message digest algorithms. | 
      | 
     
     heapq | 
     Heap queue algorithm (a.k.a. priority queue). | 
      | 
     
     hmac | 
     Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication (HMAC) implementation for Python. | 
       | 
     
     hotshot | 
     High performance logging profiler, mostly written in C. | 
      | 
        
     hotshot.stats | 
     Statistical analysis for Hotshot | 
      | 
     
     htmlentitydefs | 
     Definitions of HTML general entities. | 
      | 
     
     htmllib | Deprecated:
     A parser for HTML documents. | 
      | 
     
     HTMLParser | 
     A simple parser that can handle HTML and XHTML. | 
      | 
     
     httplib | 
     HTTP and HTTPS protocol client (requires sockets). | 
 |   |  | 
    | I |  | 
      | 
     
     ic (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Access to the Mac OS X Internet Config. | 
      | 
     
     icopen (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Internet Config replacement for open(). | 
      | 
     
     imageop | Deprecated:
     Manipulate raw image data. | 
      | 
     
     imaplib | 
     IMAP4 protocol client (requires sockets). | 
      | 
     
     imgfile (IRIX) | Deprecated:
     Support for SGI imglib files. | 
      | 
     
     imghdr | 
     Determine the type of image contained in a file or byte stream. | 
      | 
     
     imp | 
     Access the implementation of the import statement. | 
      | 
     
     imputil | Deprecated:
     Manage and augment the import process. | 
      | 
     
     inspect | 
     Extract information and source code from live objects. | 
      | 
     
     io | 
     Core tools for working with streams. | 
      | 
     
     itertools | 
     Functions creating iterators for efficient looping. | 
 |   |  | 
    | J |  | 
      | 
     
     jpeg (IRIX) | Deprecated:
     Read and write image files in compressed JPEG format. | 
      | 
     
     json | 
     Encode and decode the JSON format. | 
 |   |  | 
    | K |  | 
      | 
     
     keyword | 
     Test whether a string is a keyword in Python. | 
 |   |  | 
    | L |  | 
      | 
     
     lib2to3 | 
     the 2to3 library | 
      | 
     
     linecache | 
     This module provides random access to individual lines from text files. | 
      | 
     
     locale | 
     Internationalization services. | 
      | 
     
     logging | 
     Flexible error logging system for applications. | 
 |   |  | 
    | M |  | 
      | 
     
     macerrors (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Constant definitions for many Mac OS error codes. | 
      | 
     
     MacOS (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Access to Mac OS-specific interpreter features. | 
      | 
     
     macostools (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Convenience routines for file manipulation. | 
      | 
     
     macpath | 
     Mac OS 9 path manipulation functions. | 
      | 
     
     macresource (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Locate script resources. | 
      | 
     
     mailbox | 
     Manipulate mailboxes in various formats | 
      | 
     
     mailcap | 
     Mailcap file handling. | 
      | 
     
     marshal | 
     Convert Python objects to streams of bytes and back (with different
constraints). | 
      | 
     
     math | 
     Mathematical functions (sin() etc.). | 
      | 
     
     md5 | Deprecated:
     RSA's MD5 message digest algorithm. | 
      | 
     
     mhlib | Deprecated:
     Manipulate MH mailboxes from Python. | 
      | 
     
     mimetools | Deprecated:
     Tools for parsing MIME-style message bodies. | 
      | 
     
     mimetypes | 
     Mapping of filename extensions to MIME types. | 
      | 
     
     MimeWriter | Deprecated:
     Write MIME format files. | 
      | 
     
     mimify | Deprecated:
     Mimification and unmimification of mail messages. | 
      | 
     
     MiniAEFrame (Mac) | 
     Support to act as an Open Scripting Architecture (OSA) server ("Apple Events"). | 
      | 
     
     mmap | 
     Interface to memory-mapped files for Unix and Windows. | 
      | 
     
     modulefinder | 
     Find modules used by a script. | 
      | 
     
     msilib (Windows) | 
     Creation of Microsoft Installer files, and CAB files. | 
      | 
     
     msvcrt (Windows) | 
     Miscellaneous useful routines from the MS VC++ runtime. | 
      | 
     
     multifile | Deprecated:
     Support for reading files which contain distinct parts, such as some MIME data. | 
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     multiprocessing | 
     Process-based "threading" interface. | 
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     multiprocessing.connection | 
     API for dealing with sockets. | 
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     multiprocessing.dummy | 
     Dumb wrapper around threading. | 
      | 
        
     multiprocessing.managers | 
     Share data between process with shared objects. | 
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     multiprocessing.pool | 
     Create pools of processes. | 
      | 
        
     multiprocessing.sharedctypes | 
     Allocate ctypes objects from shared memory. | 
      | 
     
     mutex | Deprecated:
     Lock and queue for mutual exclusion. | 
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    | N |  | 
      | 
     
     Nav (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Interface to Navigation Services. | 
      | 
     
     netrc | 
     Loading of .netrc files. | 
      | 
     
     new | Deprecated:
     Interface to the creation of runtime implementation objects. | 
      | 
     
     nis (Unix) | 
     Interface to Sun's NIS (Yellow Pages) library. | 
      | 
     
     nntplib | 
     NNTP protocol client (requires sockets). | 
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     numbers | 
     Numeric abstract base classes (Complex, Real, Integral, etc.). | 
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    | O |  | 
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     operator | 
     Functions corresponding to the standard operators. | 
      | 
     
     optparse | 
     More convenient, flexible, and powerful command-line parsing library. | 
       | 
     
     os | 
     Miscellaneous operating system interfaces. | 
      | 
        
     os.path | 
     Operations on pathnames. | 
      | 
     
     ossaudiodev (Linux, FreeBSD) | 
     Access to OSS-compatible audio devices. | 
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    | P |  | 
      | 
     
     parser | 
     Access parse trees for Python source code. | 
      | 
     
     pdb | 
     The Python debugger for interactive interpreters. | 
      | 
     
     pickle | 
     Convert Python objects to streams of bytes and back. | 
      | 
     
     pickletools | 
     Contains extensive comments about the pickle protocols and pickle-machine
opcodes, as well as some useful functions. | 
      | 
     
     pipes (Unix) | 
     A Python interface to Unix shell pipelines. | 
      | 
     
     PixMapWrapper (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Wrapper for PixMap objects. | 
      | 
     
     pkgutil | 
     Utilities to support extension of packages. | 
      | 
     
     platform | 
     Retrieves as much platform identifying data as possible. | 
      | 
     
     plistlib | 
     Generate and parse Mac OS X plist files. | 
      | 
     
     popen2 | Deprecated:
     Subprocesses with accessible standard I/O streams. | 
      | 
     
     poplib | 
     POP3 protocol client (requires sockets). | 
      | 
     
     posix (Unix) | 
     The most common POSIX system calls (normally used via module os). | 
      | 
     
     posixfile (Unix) | Deprecated:
     A file-like object with support for locking. | 
      | 
     
     pprint | 
     Data pretty printer. | 
      | 
     
     profile | 
     Python source profiler. | 
      | 
     
     pstats | 
     Statistics object for use with the profiler. | 
      | 
     
     pty (Linux) | 
     Pseudo-Terminal Handling for Linux. | 
      | 
     
     pwd (Unix) | 
     The password database (getpwnam() and friends). | 
      | 
     
     py_compile | 
     Generate byte-code files from Python source files. | 
      | 
     
     pyclbr | 
     Supports information extraction for a Python class browser. | 
      | 
     
     pydoc | 
     Documentation generator and online help system. | 
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    | Q |  | 
      | 
     
     Queue | 
     A synchronized queue class. | 
      | 
     
     quopri | 
     Encode and decode files using the MIME quoted-printable encoding. | 
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    | R |  | 
      | 
     
     random | 
     Generate pseudo-random numbers with various common distributions. | 
      | 
     
     re | 
     Regular expression operations. | 
      | 
     
     readline (Unix) | 
     GNU readline support for Python. | 
      | 
     
     repr | 
     Alternate repr() implementation with size limits. | 
      | 
     
     resource (Unix) | 
     An interface to provide resource usage information on the current process. | 
      | 
     
     rexec | Deprecated:
     Basic restricted execution framework. | 
      | 
     
     rfc822 | Deprecated:
     Parse 2822 style mail messages. | 
      | 
     
     rlcompleter | 
     Python identifier completion, suitable for the GNU readline library. | 
      | 
     
     robotparser | 
     Loads a robots.txt file and answers questions about
fetchability of other URLs. | 
      | 
     
     runpy | 
     Locate and run Python modules without importing them first. | 
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    | S |  | 
      | 
     
     sched | 
     General purpose event scheduler. | 
      | 
     
     ScrolledText (Tk) | 
     Text widget with a vertical scroll bar. | 
      | 
     
     select | 
     Wait for I/O completion on multiple streams. | 
      | 
     
     sets | Deprecated:
     Implementation of sets of unique elements. | 
      | 
     
     sgmllib | Deprecated:
     Only as much of an SGML parser as needed to parse HTML. | 
      | 
     
     sha | Deprecated:
     NIST's secure hash algorithm, SHA. | 
      | 
     
     shelve | 
     Python object persistence. | 
      | 
     
     shlex | 
     Simple lexical analysis for Unix shell-like languages. | 
      | 
     
     shutil | 
     High-level file operations, including copying. | 
      | 
     
     signal | 
     Set handlers for asynchronous events. | 
      | 
     
     SimpleHTTPServer | 
     This module provides a basic request handler for HTTP servers. | 
      | 
     
     SimpleXMLRPCServer | 
     Basic XML-RPC server implementation. | 
      | 
     
     site | 
     A standard way to reference site-specific modules. | 
      | 
     
     smtpd | 
     A SMTP server implementation in Python. | 
      | 
     
     smtplib | 
     SMTP protocol client (requires sockets). | 
      | 
     
     sndhdr | 
     Determine type of a sound file. | 
      | 
     
     socket | 
     Low-level networking interface. | 
      | 
     
     SocketServer | 
     A framework for network servers. | 
      | 
     
     spwd (Unix) | 
     The shadow password database (getspnam() and friends). | 
      | 
     
     sqlite3 | 
     A DB-API 2.0 implementation using SQLite 3.x. | 
      | 
     
     ssl | 
     SSL wrapper for socket objects | 
      | 
     
     stat | 
     Utilities for interpreting the results of os.stat(), os.lstat() and os.fstat(). | 
      | 
     
     statvfs | Deprecated:
     Constants for interpreting the result of os.statvfs(). | 
      | 
     
     string | 
     Common string operations. | 
      | 
     
     StringIO | 
     Read and write strings as if they were files. | 
      | 
     
     stringprep | Deprecated:
     String preparation, as per RFC 3453 | 
      | 
     
     struct | 
     Interpret strings as packed binary data. | 
      | 
     
     subprocess | 
     Subprocess management. | 
      | 
     
     sunau | 
     Provide an interface to the Sun AU sound format. | 
      | 
     
     sunaudiodev (SunOS) | Deprecated:
     Access to Sun audio hardware. | 
      | 
     
     SUNAUDIODEV (SunOS) | Deprecated:
     Constants for use with sunaudiodev. | 
      | 
     
     symbol | 
     Constants representing internal nodes of the parse tree. | 
      | 
     
     symtable | 
     Interface to the compiler's internal symbol tables. | 
      | 
     
     sys | 
     Access system-specific parameters and functions. | 
      | 
     
     syslog (Unix) | 
     An interface to the Unix syslog library routines. | 
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    | T |  | 
      | 
     
     tabnanny | 
     Tool for detecting white space related problems in Python source files in a
directory tree. | 
      | 
     
     tarfile | 
     Read and write tar-format archive files. | 
      | 
     
     telnetlib | 
     Telnet client class. | 
      | 
     
     tempfile | 
     Generate temporary files and directories. | 
      | 
     
     termios (Unix) | 
     POSIX style tty control. | 
       | 
     
     test | 
     Regression tests package containing the testing suite for Python. | 
      | 
        
     test.test_support | 
     Support for Python regression tests. | 
      | 
     
     textwrap | 
     Text wrapping and filling | 
      | 
     
     thread | 
     Create multiple threads of control within one interpreter. | 
      | 
     
     threading | 
     Higher-level threading interface. | 
      | 
     
     time | 
     Time access and conversions. | 
      | 
     
     timeit | 
     Measure the execution time of small code snippets. | 
      | 
     
     Tix | 
     Tk Extension Widgets for Tkinter | 
      | 
     
     Tkinter | 
     Interface to Tcl/Tk for graphical user interfaces | 
      | 
     
     token | 
     Constants representing terminal nodes of the parse tree. | 
      | 
     
     tokenize | 
     Lexical scanner for Python source code. | 
      | 
     
     trace | 
     Trace or track Python statement execution. | 
      | 
     
     traceback | 
     Print or retrieve a stack traceback. | 
      | 
     
     tty (Unix) | 
     Utility functions that perform common terminal control operations. | 
      | 
     
     turtle | 
     Turtle graphics for Tk | 
      | 
     
     types | 
     Names for built-in types. | 
 |   |  | 
    | U |  | 
      | 
     
     unicodedata | 
     Access the Unicode Database. | 
      | 
     
     unittest | 
     Unit testing framework for Python. | 
      | 
     
     urllib | 
     Open an arbitrary network resource by URL (requires sockets). | 
      | 
     
     urllib2 | 
     Next generation URL opening library. | 
      | 
     
     urlparse | 
     Parse URLs into or assemble them from components. | 
      | 
     
     user | Deprecated:
     A standard way to reference user-specific modules. | 
      | 
     
     UserDict | 
     Class wrapper for dictionary objects. | 
      | 
     
     UserList | 
     Class wrapper for list objects. | 
      | 
     
     UserString | 
     Class wrapper for string objects. | 
      | 
     
     uu | 
     Encode and decode files in uuencode format. | 
      | 
     
     uuid | 
     UUID objects (universally unique identifiers) according to RFC 4122 | 
 |   |  | 
    | V |  | 
      | 
     
     videoreader (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Read QuickTime movies frame by frame for further processing. | 
 |   |  | 
    | W |  | 
      | 
     
     W (Mac) | Deprecated:
     Widgets for the Mac, built on top of FrameWork. | 
      | 
     
     warnings | 
     Issue warning messages and control their disposition. | 
      | 
     
     wave | 
     Provide an interface to the WAV sound format. | 
      | 
     
     weakref | 
     Support for weak references and weak dictionaries. | 
      | 
     
     webbrowser | 
     Easy-to-use controller for Web browsers. | 
      | 
     
     whichdb | 
     Guess which DBM-style module created a given database. | 
      | 
     
     winsound (Windows) | 
     Access to the sound-playing machinery for Windows. | 
       | 
     
     wsgiref | 
     WSGI Utilities and Reference Implementation. | 
      | 
        
     wsgiref.handlers | 
     WSGI server/gateway base classes. | 
      | 
        
     wsgiref.headers | 
     WSGI response header tools. | 
      | 
        
     wsgiref.simple_server | 
     A simple WSGI HTTP server. | 
      | 
        
     wsgiref.util | 
     WSGI environment utilities. | 
      | 
        
     wsgiref.validate | 
     WSGI conformance checker. | 
 |   |  | 
    | X |  | 
      | 
     
     xdrlib | 
     Encoders and decoders for the External Data Representation (XDR). | 
       | 
     
     xml | 
      | 
      | 
        
     xml.dom | 
     Document Object Model API for Python. | 
      | 
        
     xml.dom.minidom | 
     Lightweight Document Object Model (DOM) implementation. | 
      | 
        
     xml.dom.pulldom | 
     Support for building partial DOM trees from SAX events. | 
      | 
        
     xml.etree.ElementTree | 
     Implementation of the ElementTree API. | 
      | 
        
     xml.parsers.expat | 
     An interface to the Expat non-validating XML parser. | 
      | 
        
     xml.sax | 
     Package containing SAX2 base classes and convenience functions. | 
      | 
        
     xml.sax.handler | 
     Base classes for SAX event handlers. | 
      | 
        
     xml.sax.saxutils | 
     Convenience functions and classes for use with SAX. | 
      | 
        
     xml.sax.xmlreader | 
     Interface which SAX-compliant XML parsers must implement. | 
      | 
     
     xmlrpclib | 
     XML-RPC client access. | 
 |   |  | 
    | Z |  | 
      | 
     
     zipfile | 
     Read and write ZIP-format archive files. | 
      | 
     
     zipimport | 
     support for importing Python modules from ZIP archives. | 
      | 
     
     zlib | 
     Low-level interface to compression and decompression routines compatible with
gzip. |