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1. ReferenceIntroduction = Table Of Contents =
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2. BuiltInObjects 1. [[/Introduction|Introduction]]
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3. PythonRuntimeServices 2. [[/BuiltInObjects|Built In Objects]]
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4. StringServices 3. [[/PythonRuntimeServices|Python Runtime Services]]
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5. MiscellaneousServices 4. [[/StringServices|String Services]]
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5.1 pydoc -- Documentation generator and online help system
5.2 doctest -- Test docstrings represent reality
5.2.1 Normal Usage
5.2.2 Which Docstrings Are Examined?
5.2.3 What's the Execution Context?
5.2.4 What About Exceptions?
5.2.5 Advanced Usage
5.2.6 How are Docstring Examples Recognized?
5.2.7 Warnings
5.2.8 Soapbox
5.3 unittest -- Unit testing framework
5.3.1 Basic example
5.3.2 Organizing test code
5.3.3 Re-using old test code
5.3.4 Classes and functions
5.3.5 TestCase Objects
5.3.6 TestSuite Objects
5.3.7 TestResult Objects
5.3.8 TestLoader Objects
5.4 test -- Regression tests package for Python
5.4.1 Writing Unit Tests for the test package
5.4.2 Running tests Using test.regrtest
5.5 test.test_support -- Utility functions for tests
5.6 math -- Mathematical functions
5.7 cmath -- Mathematical functions for complex numbers
5.8 random -- Generate pseudo-random numbers
5.9 whrandom -- Pseudo-random number generator
5.10 bisect -- Array bisection algorithm
5.10.1 Examples
5.11 heapq -- Heap queue algorithm
5.11.1 Theory
5.12 array -- Efficient arrays of numeric values
5.13 sets -- Unordered collections of unique elements
5.13.1 Set Objects
5.13.2 Example
5.13.3 Protocol for automatic conversion to immutable
5.14 itertools -- Functions creating iterators for efficient looping
5.14.1 Itertool functions
5.14.2 Examples
5.15 ConfigParser -- Configuration file parser
5.15.1 RawConfigParser Objects
5.15.2 ConfigParser Objects
5.16 fileinput -- Iterate over lines from multiple input streams
5.17 xreadlines -- Efficient iteration over a file
5.18 calendar -- General calendar-related functions
5.19 cmd -- Support for line-oriented command interpreters
5.19.1 Cmd Objects
5.20 shlex -- Simple lexical analysis
5.20.1 Module Contents
5.20.2 shlex Objects
5.20.3 Parsing Rules
5. [[/MiscellaneousServices|Miscellaneous Services]]
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6.1 os -- Miscellaneous operating system interfaces
6.1.1 Process Parameters
6.1.2 File Object Creation
6.1.3 File Descriptor Operations
6.1.4 Files and Directories
6.1.5 Process Management
6.1.6 Miscellaneous System Information
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
6.7.1 The dircmp class
6.8 popen2 -- Subprocesses with accessible I/O streams
6.8.1 Popen3 and Popen4 Objects
6.8.2 Flow Control Issues
6.9 datetime -- Basic date and time types
6.9.1 Available Types
6.9.2 timedelta Objects
6.9.3 date Objects
6.9.4 datetime Objects
6.9.5 time Objects
6.9.6 tzinfo Objects
6.9.7 strftime() Behavior
6.10 time -- Time access and conversions
6.11 sched -- Event scheduler
6.11.1 Scheduler Objects
6.12 mutex -- Mutual exclusion support
6.12.1 Mutex Objects
6.13 getpass -- Portable password input
6.14 curses -- Terminal handling for character-cell displays
6.14.1 Functions
6.14.2 Window Objects
6.14.3 Constants
6.15 curses.textpad -- Text input widget for curses programs
6.15.1 Textbox objects
6.16 curses.wrapper -- Terminal handler for curses programs
6.17 curses.ascii -- Utilities for ASCII characters
6.18 curses.panel -- A panel stack extension for curses.
6.18.1 Functions
6.18.2 Panel Objects
6.19 getopt -- Parser for command line options
6.20 optparse -- Powerful parser for command line options.
6.20.1 Philosophy
6.20.2 Basic Usage
6.20.3 Advanced Usage
6.20.4 Callback Options
6.20.5 Extending optparse
6.21 tempfile -- Generate temporary files and directories
6.22 errno -- Standard errno system symbols
6.23 glob -- Unix style pathname pattern expansion
6.24 fnmatch -- Unix filename pattern matching
6.25 shutil -- High-level file operations
6.25.1 Example
6.26 locale -- Internationalization services
6.26.1 Background, details, hints, tips and caveats
6.26.2 For extension writers and programs that embed Python
6.26.3 Access to message catalogs
6.27 gettext -- Multilingual internationalization services
6.27.1 GNU gettext API
6.27.2 Class-based API
6.27.3 Internationalizing your programs and modules
6.27.4 Acknowledgements
6.28 logging -- Logging facility for Python
6.28.1 Logger Objects
6.28.2 Handler Objects
6.28.3 Formatter Objects
6.28.4 Filter Objects
6.28.5 LogRecord Objects
6.28.6 Thread Safety
6.28.7 Configuration
6.28.8 Using the logging package
7. [[/OptionalOperatingSystemServices|Optional Operating System Services]]
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7.1 signal -- Set handlers for asynchronous events
7.1.1 Example
7.2 socket -- Low-level networking interface
7.2.1 Socket Objects
7.2.2 SSL Objects
7.2.3 Example
7.3 select -- Waiting for I/O completion
7.3.1 Polling Objects
7.4 thread -- Multiple threads of control
7.5 threading -- Higher-level threading interface
7.5.1 Lock Objects
7.5.2 RLock Objects
7.5.3 Condition Objects
7.5.4 Semaphore Objects
7.5.5 Event Objects
7.5.6 Thread Objects
7.5.7 Timer Objects
7.6 dummy_thread -- Drop-in replacement for the thread module
7.7 dummy_threading -- Drop-in replacement for the threading module
7.8 Queue -- A synchronized queue class
7.8.1 Queue Objects
7.9 mmap -- Memory-mapped file support
7.10 anydbm -- Generic access to DBM-style databases
7.11 dbhash -- DBM-style interface to the BSD database library
7.11.1 Database Objects
7.12 whichdb -- Guess which DBM module created a database
7.13 bsddb -- Interface to Berkeley DB library
7.13.1 Hash, BTree and Record Objects
7.14 dumbdbm -- Portable DBM implementation
7.14.1 Dumbdbm Objects
7.15 zlib -- Compression compatible with gzip
7.16 gzip -- Support for gzip files
7.17 bz2 -- Compression compatible with bzip2
7.17.1 (De)compression of files
7.17.2 Sequential (de)compression
7.17.3 One-shot (de)compression
7.18 zipfile -- Work with ZIP archives
7.18.1 ZipFile Objects
7.18.2 PyZipFile Objects
7.18.3 ZipInfo Objects
7.19 tarfile -- Read and write tar archive files
7.19.1 TarFile Objects
7.19.2 TarInfo Objects
7.19.3 Examples
7.20 readline -- GNU readline interface
7.20.1 Example
7.21 rlcompleter -- Completion function for GNU readline
7.21.1 Completer Objects
9. [[/ThePythonDebugger|The Python Debugger]]
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8.1 posix -- The most common POSIX system calls
8.1.1 Large File Support
8.1.2 Module Contents
8.2 pwd -- The password database
8.3 grp -- The group database
8.4 crypt -- Function to check Unix passwords
8.5 dl -- Call C functions in shared objects
8.5.1 Dl Objects
8.6 dbm -- Simple ``database'' interface
8.7 gdbm -- GNU's reinterpretation of dbm
8.8 termios -- POSIX style tty control
8.8.1 Example
8.9 TERMIOS -- Constants used with the termios module
8.10 tty -- Terminal control functions
8.11 pty -- Pseudo-terminal utilities
8.12 fcntl -- The fcntl() and ioctl() system calls
8.13 pipes -- Interface to shell pipelines
8.13.1 Template Objects
8.14 posixfile -- File-like objects with locking support
8.15 resource -- Resource usage information
8.15.1 Resource Limits
8.15.2 Resource Usage
8.16 nis -- Interface to Sun's NIS (Yellow Pages)
8.17 syslog -- Unix syslog library routines
8.18 commands -- Utilities for running commands
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9.1 Debugger Commands
9.2 How It Works
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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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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
A. [[/UndocumentedModules|Undocumented Modules]]
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15. CryptographicServices B. [[/ReportingBugs|Reporting Bugs]]
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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
C. [[/HistoryAndLicense|History And License]]
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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
[[/PythonLibraryReferenceIndex|Python Library Reference Index]]
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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
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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
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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

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

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

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

C. HistoryAndLicense

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

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CategoryCategory LloydFlanagan -- 10/8/2004

I've checked out Andrew's setup. It's brilliant! I've been looking at a system for parsing the current CVS documentation, creating wiki pages out of it, and updating them as the docs are changed. Meanwhile, Andrew has come up with a scheme to view the standard HTML pages side-by-side with comments.

Since that's so functional, and these docs are obsolete already, I'll probably stop work on this version until I think of something better. Err, make that "if".

Thanks Andrew!
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Python Library Reference

Guido van Rossum

Fred L. Drake, Jr., editor

PythonLabs

Email: docs@python.org

Release 2.3.3

December 19, 2003

(conversion to Wiki Format by A. Lloyd Flanagan, who didn't know what he was getting into)


Note: this is an unofficial posting of the official python documentation. So PLEASE DON'T modify the existing text! It will probably just be overwritten and no one will realize you've done it. PLEASE DO add any and all comments at the end of the section they apply to. That's what it's for!

Front Matter

Table Of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Built In Objects

3. Python Runtime Services

4. String Services

5. Miscellaneous Services

6. Generic Operating System Services

7. Optional Operating System Services

8. Unix Specific Services

9. The Python Debugger

10. The Python Profiler

11. Internet Protocols And Support

12. Internet Data Handling

13. Structured Markup Processing Tools

14. Multimedia Services

15. Cryptographic Services

16. Graphical User Interfaces With Tk

17. Restricted Execution

18. Python Language Services

19. Python Compiler Package

20. Sgi Irix Specific Services

21. Sun OS Specific Services

22. MS Windows Specific Services

A. Undocumented Modules

B. Reporting Bugs

C. History And License

Module Index

Python Library Reference Index

About This Document ...

Comments

Another set of annotatable documentation is at http://pydoc.amk.ca/frame.html .

That site wraps a frameset around the Python 2.3.4 documentation and adds some JavaScript that updates another frame to display a Wiki page for the documentation page you're viewing.

Please go and add any commentary, links, or other material you wish. If it becomes clear that people will actually use these annotated docs, they'll probably get moved onto python.org.

AndrewKuchling -- 2004-09-09


LloydFlanagan -- 10/8/2004

I've checked out Andrew's setup. It's brilliant! I've been looking at a system for parsing the current CVS documentation, creating wiki pages out of it, and updating them as the docs are changed. Meanwhile, Andrew has come up with a scheme to view the standard HTML pages side-by-side with comments.

Since that's so functional, and these docs are obsolete already, I'll probably stop work on this version until I think of something better. Err, make that "if".

Thanks Andrew!


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