The modules described in this chapter provide interfaces to operating
system features that are available on selected operating systems only.
The interfaces are generally modeled after the Unix or C
interfaces but they are available on some other systems as well
(e.g. Windows or NT). Here's an overview:
| signal |
|
Set handlers for asynchronous events. |
| socket |
|
Low-level networking interface. |
| select |
|
Wait for I/O completion on multiple streams. |
| thread |
|
Create multiple threads of control within one interpreter. |
| threading |
|
Higher-level threading interface. |
| dummy_thread |
|
Drop-in replacement for the thread module. |
| dummy_threading |
|
Drop-in replacement for the threading module. |
| Queue |
|
A synchronized queue class. |
| mmap |
|
Interface to memory-mapped files for Unix and Windows. |
| anydbm |
|
Generic interface to DBM-style database modules. |
| dbhash |
|
DBM-style interface to the BSD database library. |
| whichdb |
|
Guess which DBM-style module created a given database. |
| bsddb |
|
Interface to Berkeley DB database library |
| dumbdbm |
|
Portable implementation of the simple DBM interface. |
| zlib |
|
Low-level interface to compression and decompression
routines compatible with gzip. |
| gzip |
|
Interfaces for gzip compression and
decompression using file objects. |
| bz2 |
|
Interface to compression and decompression
routines compatible with bzip2. |
| zipfile |
|
Read and write ZIP-format archive files. |
| tarfile |
|
Read and write tar-format archive files. |
| readline |
|
GNU readline support for Python. |
| rlcompleter |
|
Python identifier completion for the GNU readline library. |
