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6. Generic Operating System Services

6.1 os -- Miscellaneous operating system interfaces

6.2 os.path -- Common pathname manipulations

6.3 dircache -- Cached directory listings

6.4 stat -- Interpreting stat() results

6.5 statcache -- An optimization of os.stat()

6.6 statvfs -- Constants used with os.statvfs()

6.7 filecmp -- File and Directory Comparisons

6.8 subprocess -- Subprocess management

6.9 popen2 -- Subprocesses with accessible I/O streams

6.10 datetime -- Basic date and time types

6.11 time -- Time access and conversions

6.12 sched -- Event scheduler

6.13 mutex -- Mutual exclusion support

6.14 getpass -- Portable password input

6.15 curses -- Terminal handling for character-cell displays

6.16 curses.textpad -- Text input widget for curses programs

6.17 curses.wrapper -- Terminal handler for curses programs

6.18 curses.ascii -- Utilities for ASCII characters

6.19 curses.panel -- A panel stack extension for curses.

6.20 getopt -- Parser for command line options

6.21 optparse -- More powerful command line option parser

6.22 tempfile -- Generate temporary files and directories

6.23 errno -- Standard errno system symbols

6.24 glob -- Unix style pathname pattern expansion

6.25 fnmatch -- Unix filename pattern matching

6.26 shutil -- High-level file operations

6.27 locale -- Internationalization services

6.28 gettext -- Multilingual internationalization services

6.28.1 GNU gettext API

6.28.2 Class-based API

6.28.3 Internationalizing your programs and modules

6.28.4 Acknowledgements

6.29 logging -- Logging facility for Python

6.30 platform -- Access to underlying platform's identifying data.

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6.28 `gettext` -- Multilingual internationalization services

The gettext module provides internationalization (I18N) and localization (L10N) services for your Python modules and applications. It supports both the GNU gettext message catalog API and a higher level, class-based API that may be more appropriate for Python files. The interface described below allows you to write your module and application messages in one natural language, and provide a catalog of translated messages for running under different natural languages.

Some hints on localizing your Python modules and applications are also given.

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