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:
| 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. |
| mmap |
|
Interface to memory-mapped files for Unix and Windows. |
| readline |
|
GNU readline support for Python. |
| rlcompleter |
|
Python identifier completion, suitable for the GNU readline library. |
