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PythonLibraryReference Python Library Reference
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10.1 Introduction to the profiler
10.2 How Is This Profiler Different From The Old Profiler?
10.3 Instant Users Manual
10.4 What Is Deterministic Profiling?
10.5 Reference Manual
10.5.1 The Stats Class
10.6 Limitations
10.7 Calibration
10.8 Extensions -- Deriving Better Profilers
10.9 hotshot -- High performance logging profiler
10.9.1 Profile Objects
10.9.2 Using hotshot data
10.9.3 Example Usage
10.10 timeit -- Measure execution time of small code snippets
10.10.1 Command Line Interface
10.10.2 Examples
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11.1 webbrowser -- Convenient Web-browser controller
11.1.1 Browser Controller Objects
11.2 cgi -- Common Gateway Interface support.
11.2.1 Introduction
11.2.2 Using the cgi module
11.2.3 Higher Level Interface
11.2.4 Old classes
11.2.5 Functions
11.2.6 Caring about security
11.2.7 Installing your CGI script on a Unix system
11.2.8 Testing your CGI script
11.2.9 Debugging CGI scripts
11.2.10 Common problems and solutions
11.3 cgitb -- Traceback manager for CGI scripts
11.4 urllib -- Open arbitrary resources by URL
11.4.1 URLopener Objects
11.4.2 Examples
11.5 urllib2 -- extensible library for opening URLs
11.5.1 Request Objects
11.5.2 OpenerDirector Objects
11.5.3 BaseHandler Objects
11.5.4 HTTPRedirectHandler Objects
11.5.5 ProxyHandler Objects
11.5.6 HTTPPasswordMgr Objects
11.5.7 AbstractBasicAuthHandler Objects
11.5.8 HTTPBasicAuthHandler Objects
11.5.9 ProxyBasicAuthHandler Objects
11.5.10 AbstractDigestAuthHandler Objects
11.5.11 HTTPDigestAuthHandler Objects
11.5.12 ProxyDigestAuthHandler Objects
11.5.13 HTTPHandler Objects
11.5.14 HTTPSHandler Objects
11.5.15 FileHandler Objects
11.5.16 FTPHandler Objects
11.5.17 CacheFTPHandler Objects
11.5.18 GopherHandler Objects
11.5.19 UnknownHandler Objects
11.5.20 Examples
11.6 httplib -- HTTP protocol client
11.6.1 HTTPConnection Objects
11.6.2 HTTPResponse Objects
11.6.3 Examples
11.7 ftplib -- FTP protocol client
11.7.1 FTP Objects
11.8 gopherlib -- Gopher protocol client
11.9 poplib -- POP3 protocol client
11.9.1 POP3 Objects
11.9.2 POP3 Example
11.10 imaplib -- IMAP4 protocol client
11.10.1 IMAP4 Objects
11.10.2 IMAP4 Example
11.11 nntplib -- NNTP protocol client
11.11.1 NNTP Objects
11.12 smtplib -- SMTP protocol client
11.12.1 SMTP Objects
11.12.2 SMTP Example
11.13 telnetlib -- Telnet client
11.13.1 Telnet Objects
11.13.2 Telnet Example
11.14 urlparse -- Parse URLs into components
11.15 SocketServer -- A framework for network servers
11.16 BaseHTTPServer -- Basic HTTP server
11.17 SimpleHTTPServer -- Simple HTTP request handler
11.18 CGIHTTPServer -- CGI-capable HTTP request handler
11.19 Cookie -- HTTP state management
11.19.1 Cookie Objects
11.19.2 Morsel Objects
11.19.3 Example
11.20 xmlrpclib -- XML-RPC client access
11.20.1 ServerProxy Objects
11.20.2 Boolean Objects
11.20.3 DateTime Objects
11.20.4 Binary Objects
11.20.5 Fault Objects
11.20.6 ProtocolError Objects
11.20.7 Convenience Functions
11.20.8 Example of Client Usage
11.21 SimpleXMLRPCServer -- Basic XML-RPC server
11.21.1 SimpleXMLRPCServer Objects
11.21.2 CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler
11.22 DocXMLRPCServer -- Self-documenting XML-RPC server
11.22.1 DocXMLRPCServer Objects
11.22.2 DocCGIXMLRPCRequestHandler
11.23 asyncore -- Asynchronous socket handler
11.23.1 asyncore Example basic HTTP client
11.24 asynchat -- Asynchronous socket command/response handler
11.24.1 asynchat - Auxiliary Classes and Functions
11.24.2 asynchat Example
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12.1 formatter -- Generic output formatting
12.1.1 The Formatter Interface
12.1.2 Formatter Implementations
12.1.3 The Writer Interface
12.1.4 Writer Implementations
12.2 email -- An email and MIME handling package
12.2.1 Representing an email message
12.2.2 Parsing email messages
12.2.3 Generating MIME documents
12.2.4 Creating email and MIME objects from scratch
12.2.5 Internationalized headers
12.2.6 Representing character sets
12.2.7 Encoders
12.2.8 Exception classes
12.2.9 Miscellaneous utilities
12.2.10 Iterators
12.2.11 Differences from email v1 (up to Python 2.2.1)
12.2.12 Differences from mimelib
12.2.13 Examples
12.3 mailcap -- Mailcap file handling.
12.4 mailbox -- Read various mailbox formats
12.4.1 Mailbox Objects
12.5 mhlib -- Access to MH mailboxes
12.5.1 MH Objects
12.5.2 Folder Objects
12.5.3 Message Objects
12.6 mimetools -- Tools for parsing MIME messages
12.6.1 Additional Methods of Message Objects
12.7 mimetypes -- Map filenames to MIME types
12.7.1 MimeTypes Objects
12.8 MimeWriter -- Generic MIME file writer
12.8.1 MimeWriter Objects
12.9 mimify -- MIME processing of mail messages
12.10 multifile -- Support for files containing distinct parts
12.10.1 MultiFile Objects
12.10.2 MultiFile Example
12.11 rfc822 -- Parse RFC 2822 mail headers
12.11.1 Message Objects
12.11.2 AddressList Objects
12.12 base64 -- Encode and decode MIME base64 data
12.13 binascii -- Convert between binary and ASCII
12.14 binhex -- Encode and decode binhex4 files
12.14.1 Notes
12.15 quopri -- Encode and decode MIME quoted-printable data
12.16 uu -- Encode and decode uuencode files
12.17 xdrlib -- Encode and decode XDR data
12.17.1 Packer Objects
12.17.2 Unpacker Objects
12.17.3 Exceptions
12.18 netrc -- netrc file processing
12.18.1 netrc Objects
12.19 robotparser -- Parser for robots.txt
12.20 csv -- CSV File Reading and Writing
12.20.1 Module Contents
12.20.2 Dialects and Formatting Parameters
12.20.3 Reader Objects
12.20.4 Writer Objects
12.20.5 Examples
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13.1 HTMLParser -- Simple HTML and XHTML parser
13.1.1 Example HTML Parser Application
13.2 sgmllib -- Simple SGML parser
13.3 htmllib -- A parser for HTML documents
13.3.1 HTMLParser Objects
13.4 htmlentitydefs -- Definitions of HTML general entities
13.5 xml.parsers.expat -- Fast XML parsing using Expat
13.5.1 XMLParser Objects
13.5.2 ExpatError Exceptions
13.5.3 Example
13.5.4 Content Model Descriptions
13.5.5 Expat error constants
13.6 xml.dom -- The Document Object Model API
13.6.1 Module Contents
13.6.2 Objects in the DOM
13.6.3 Conformance
13.7 xml.dom.minidom -- Lightweight DOM implementation
13.7.1 DOM Objects
13.7.2 DOM Example
13.7.3 minidom and the DOM standard
13.8 xml.dom.pulldom -- Support for building partial DOM trees
13.8.1 DOMEventStream Objects
13.9 xml.sax -- Support for SAX2 parsers
13.9.1 SAXException Objects
13.10 xml.sax.handler -- Base classes for SAX handlers
13.10.1 ContentHandler Objects
13.10.2 DTDHandler Objects
13.10.3 EntityResolver Objects
13.10.4 ErrorHandler Objects
13.11 xml.sax.saxutils -- SAX Utilities
13.12 xml.sax.xmlreader -- Interface for XML parsers
13.12.1 XMLReader Objects
13.12.2 IncrementalParser Objects
13.12.3 Locator Objects
13.12.4 InputSource Objects
13.12.5 The Attributes Interface
13.12.6 The AttributesNS Interface
13.13 xmllib -- A parser for XML documents
13.13.1 XML Namespaces
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Guido van Rossum

Fred L. Drake, Jr., editor

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Email: docs@python.org

Release 2.3.3

December 19, 2003

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[:/FrontMatter:Front Matter]

Table Of Contents

1. [:/Introduction:Introduction]

2. [:/BuiltInObjects:Built In Objects]

3. [:/PythonRuntimeServices:Python Runtime Services]

4. [:/StringServices:String Services]

5. [:/MiscellaneousServices:Miscellaneous Services]

6. [:/GenericOperatingSystemServices:Generic Operating System Services]

7. [:/OptionalOperatingSystemServices:Optional Operating System Services]

8. [:/UnixSpecificServices:Unix Specific Services]

9. [:/ThePythonDebugger:The Python Debugger]

10. [:/ThePythonProfiler:The Python Profiler]

11. [:/InternetProtocolsAndSupport:Internet Protocols And Support]

12. [:/InternetDataHandling:Internet Data Handling]

13. [:/StructuredMarkupProcessingTools:Structured Markup Processing Tools]

14. [:/MultimediaServices:Multimedia Services]

14.1 audioop -- Manipulate raw audio data 14.2 imageop -- Manipulate raw image data 14.3 aifc -- Read and write AIFF and AIFC files 14.4 sunau -- Read and write Sun AU files 14.4.1 AU_read Objects 14.4.2 AU_write Objects 14.5 wave -- Read and write WAV files 14.5.1 Wave_read Objects 14.5.2 Wave_write Objects 14.6 chunk -- Read IFF chunked data 14.7 colorsys -- Conversions between color systems 14.8 rgbimg -- Read and write SGI RGB files 14.9 imghdr -- Determine the type of an image 14.10 sndhdr -- Determine type of sound file 14.11 ossaudiodev -- Access to OSS-compatible audio devices 14.11.1 Audio Device Objects 14.11.2 Mixer Device Objects

15. [:/CryptographicServices:Cryptographic Services]

15.1 hmac -- Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication 15.2 md5 -- MD5 message digest algorithm 15.3 sha -- SHA-1 message digest algorithm 15.4 mpz -- GNU arbitrary magnitude integers 15.5 rotor -- Enigma-like encryption and decryption

16. [:/GraphicalUserInterfacesWithTk:Graphical User Interfaces With Tk]

16.1 Tkinter -- Python interface to Tcl/Tk 16.1.1 Tkinter Modules 16.1.2 Tkinter Life Preserver 16.1.3 A (Very) Quick Look at Tcl/Tk 16.1.4 Mapping Basic Tk into Tkinter 16.1.5 How Tk and Tkinter are Related 16.1.6 Handy Reference 16.2 Tix -- Extension widgets for Tk 16.2.1 Using Tix 16.2.2 Tix Widgets 16.2.3 Tix Commands 16.3 ScrolledText -- Scrolled Text Widget 16.4 turtle -- Turtle graphics for Tk 16.4.1 Pen and RawPen Objects 16.5 Idle 16.5.1 Menus 16.5.2 Basic editing and navigation 16.5.3 Syntax colors 16.6 Other Graphical User Interface Packages

17. [:/RestrictedExecution:Restricted Execution]

17.1 rexec -- Restricted execution framework 17.1.1 RExec Objects 17.1.2 Defining restricted environments 17.1.3 An example 17.2 Bastion -- Restricting access to objects

18. [:/PythonLanguageServices:Python Language Services]

18.1 parser -- Access Python parse trees 18.1.1 Creating AST Objects 18.1.2 Converting AST Objects 18.1.3 Queries on AST Objects 18.1.4 Exceptions and Error Handling 18.1.5 AST Objects 18.1.6 Examples 18.2 symbol -- Constants used with Python parse trees 18.3 token -- Constants used with Python parse trees 18.4 keyword -- Testing for Python keywords 18.5 tokenize -- Tokenizer for Python source 18.6 tabnanny -- Detection of ambiguous indentation 18.7 pyclbr -- Python class browser support 18.7.1 Class Descriptor Objects 18.7.2 Function Descriptor Objects 18.8 py_compile -- Compile Python source files 18.9 compileall -- Byte-compile Python libraries 18.10 dis -- Disassembler for Python byte code 18.10.1 Python Byte Code Instructions 18.11 distutils -- Building and installing Python modules

19. [:/PythonCompilerPackage:Python Compiler Package]

19.1 The basic interface 19.2 Limitations 19.3 Python Abstract Syntax 19.3.1 AST Nodes 19.3.2 Assignment nodes 19.3.3 Examples 19.4 Using Visitors to Walk ASTs 19.5 Bytecode Generation

20. [:/SgiIrixSpecificServices:Sgi Irix Specific Services]

20.1 al -- Audio functions on the SGI 20.1.1 Configuration Objects 20.1.2 Port Objects 20.2 AL -- Constants used with the al module 20.3 cd -- CD-ROM access on SGI systems 20.3.1 Player Objects 20.3.2 Parser Objects 20.4 fl -- FORMS library for graphical user interfaces 20.4.1 Functions Defined in Module fl 20.4.2 Form Objects 20.4.3 FORMS Objects 20.5 FL -- Constants used with the fl module 20.6 flp -- Functions for loading stored FORMS designs 20.7 fm -- Font Manager interface 20.8 gl -- Graphics Library interface 20.9 DEVICE -- Constants used with the gl module 20.10 GL -- Constants used with the gl module 20.11 imgfile -- Support for SGI imglib files 20.12 jpeg -- Read and write JPEG files

21. [:/SunOsSpecificServices:Sun OS Specific Services]

21.1 sunaudiodev -- Access to Sun audio hardware 21.1.1 Audio Device Objects 21.2 SUNAUDIODEV -- Constants used with sunaudiodev 22. MS Windows Specific Services 22.1 msvcrt - Useful routines from the MS VC++ runtime 22.1.1 File Operations 22.1.2 Console I/O 22.1.3 Other Functions 22.2 _winreg - Windows registry access 22.2.1 Registry Handle Objects 22.3 winsound -- Sound-playing interface for Windows

A. [:/UndocumentedModules:Undocumented Modules]

A.1 Frameworks A.2 Miscellaneous useful utilities A.3 Platform specific modules A.4 Multimedia A.5 Obsolete A.6 SGI-specific Extension modules

B. [:/ReportingBugs:Reporting Bugs]

C. [:/HistoryAndLicense:History And License]

C.1 History of the software C.2 Terms and conditions for accessing or otherwise using Python

[:/ModuleIndex:Module Index]

[:/PythonLibraryReferenceIndex:Python Library Reference Index]

[:/AboutThisDocument:About This Document] ...

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