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3. Python Runtime Services

3.1 sys -- System-specific parameters and functions

3.2 gc -- Garbage Collector interface

3.3 weakref -- Weak references

3.4 fpectl -- Floating point exception control

3.5 atexit -- Exit handlers

3.6 types -- Names for built-in types

3.7 UserDict -- Class wrapper for dictionary objects

3.8 UserList -- Class wrapper for list objects

3.9 UserString -- Class wrapper for string objects

3.10 operator -- Standard operators as functions.

3.11 inspect -- Inspect live objects

3.11.1 Types and members

3.11.2 Retrieving source code

3.11.3 Classes and functions

3.11.4 The interpreter stack

3.12 traceback -- Print or retrieve a stack traceback

3.13 linecache -- Random access to text lines

3.14 pickle -- Python object serialization

3.15 cPickle -- A faster pickle

3.16 copy reg -- Register pickle support functions

3.17 shelve -- Python object persistence

3.18 copy -- Shallow and deep copy operations

3.19 marshal -- Internal Python object serialization

3.20 warnings -- Warning control

3.21 imp -- Access the import internals

3.22 zipimport -- Import modules from Zip archives

3.23 pkgutil -- Package extension utility

3.24 modulefinder -- Find modules used by a script

3.25 code -- Interpreter base classes

3.26 codeop -- Compile Python code

3.27 pprint -- Data pretty printer

3.28 repr -- Alternate repr() implementation

3.29 new -- Creation of runtime internal objects

3.30 site -- Site-specific configuration hook

3.31 user -- User-specific configuration hook

3.32 builtin -- Built-in objects

3.33 main -- Top-level script environment

3.34 future -- Future statement definitions

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3.11 `inspect` -- Inspect live objects

New in version 2.1.

The inspect module provides several useful functions to help get information about live objects such as modules, classes, methods, functions, tracebacks, frame objects, and code objects. For example, it can help you examine the contents of a class, retrieve the source code of a method, extract and format the argument list for a function, or get all the information you need to display a detailed traceback.

There are four main kinds of services provided by this module: type checking, getting source code, inspecting classes and functions, and examining the interpreter stack.

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