Removed entries for several modules which have been documented.
Updated comments on several remaining modules.
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@ -13,16 +13,16 @@ Frameworks tend to be harder to document, but are well worth the
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effort spent.
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\begin{description}
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\item[Tkinter.py]
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\item[\module{Tkinter}]
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--- Interface to Tcl/Tk for graphical user interfaces;
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Fredrik Lundh is working on this one! See \emph{An Introduction to
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Tkinter} at \url{http://www.pythonware.com/library/} for on-line
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reference material.
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\item[Tkdnd.py]
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\item[\module{Tkdnd}]
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--- Drag-and-drop support for \module{Tkinter}.
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\item[test]
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\item[\module{test}]
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--- Regression testing framework. This is used for the Python
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regression test, but is useful for other Python libraries as well.
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This is a package rather than a module.
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@ -34,17 +34,18 @@ This is a package rather than a module.
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Some of these are very old and/or not very robust; marked with ``hmm.''
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\begin{description}
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\item[dircmp.py]
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\item[\module{dircmp}]
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--- class to build directory diff tools on (may become a demo or tool)
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\item[pty.py]
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--- Pseudo terminal utilities
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\item[bdb.py]
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\item[\module{bdb}]
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--- A generic Python debugger base class (used by pdb)
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\item[ihooks.py]
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\item[\module{ihooks}]
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--- Import hook support (for \refmodule{rexec}; may become obsolete)
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\item[\module{tzparse}]
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--- Parse a timezone specification (unfinished; may disappear in the
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future)
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\end{description}
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document these.
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\begin{description}
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\item[dospath.py]
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\item[\module{dospath}]
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--- implementation of \module{os.path} on MS-DOS
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\item[ntpath.py]
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\item[\module{ntpath}]
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--- implementation on \module{os.path} on 32-bit Windows
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\item[posixpath.py]
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\item[\module{posixpath}]
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--- implementation on \module{os.path} on \POSIX{}
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\end{description}
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\section{Multimedia}
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\begin{description}
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\item[audiodev.py]
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\item[\module{audiodev}]
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--- Platform-independent API for playing audio data
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\item[sunaudio.py]
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\item[\module{sunaudio}]
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--- interpret sun audio headers (may become obsolete or a tool/demo)
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\item[toaiff.py]
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\item[\module{toaiff}]
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--- Convert "arbitrary" sound files to AIFF files; should probably
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become a tool or demo. Requires the external program \program{sox}.
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\end{description}
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\section{Oddities}
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These modules are probably also obsolete, or just not very useful.
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Some of these may be made into tools or demos in future releases.
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\begin{description}
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\item[find.py]
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--- find files matching pattern in directory tree (may become a demo
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or tool, or possibly obsolete)
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\item[grep.py]
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--- grep (may become a demo or tool)
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\item[mutex.py]
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--- Mutual exclusion --- for use with module sched
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\item[packmail.py]
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--- create a self-unpacking \UNIX{} shell archive
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\item[sched.py]
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--- event scheduler class
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\item[tzparse.py]
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--- Parse a timezone specification (unfinished)
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\end{description}
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\section{Obsolete}
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These modules are not on the standard module search path;
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possibly using \envvar{PYTHONPATH}.
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\begin{description}
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\item[newdir.py]
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\item[\module{newdir}]
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--- New \function{dir()} function (the standard \function{dir()} is
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now just as good)
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\item[addpack.py]
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--- standard support for "packages"
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\item[\module{addpack}]
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--- alternate approach to packages
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\item[codehack.py]
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\item[\module{codehack}]
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--- Extract function name or line number from a function
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code object (these are now accessible as attributes:
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\member{co.co_name}, \member{func.func_name},
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\member{co.co_firstlineno}).
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\item[dump.py]
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\item[\module{dump}]
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--- Print python code that reconstructs a variable
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\item[fmt.py]
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\item[\module{fmt}]
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--- text formatting abstractions (too slow)
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\item[Para.py]
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\item[\module{Para}]
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--- helper for fmt.py
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\item[lockfile.py]
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\item[\module{lockfile}]
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--- wrapper around FCNTL file locking (use
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\function{fcntl.lockf()}/\function{flock()} intead; see \refmodule{fcntl})
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\item[poly.py]
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\item[\module{poly}]
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--- Polynomials
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\item[tb.py]
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\item[\module{tb}]
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--- Print tracebacks, with a dump of local variables (use
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\function{pdb.pm()} or \refmodule{traceback} instead)
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\item[timingmodule]
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\item[\module{timing}]
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--- Measure time intervals to high resolution (use
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\function{time.clock()} instead). (This is an extension module.)
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\item[util.py]
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\item[\module{util}]
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--- Useful functions that don't fit elsewhere.
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\item[wdb.py]
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\item[\module{wdb}]
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--- A primitive windowing debugger based on STDWIN.
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\item[whatsound.py]
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\item[\module{whatsound}]
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--- Recognize sound files; use \refmodule{sndhdr} instead.
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\item[zmod.py]
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\item[\module{zmod}]
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--- Compute properties of mathematical "fields"
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\end{description}
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The following modules are obsolete, but are likely re-surface as tools
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or scripts.
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\begin{description}
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\item[\module{find}]
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--- find files matching pattern in directory tree
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\item[\module{grep}]
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--- grep
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\item[\module{packmail}]
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--- create a self-unpacking \UNIX{} shell archive
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\end{description}
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The following modules were documented in previous versions of this
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manual, but are now considered obsolete. The source for the
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documentation is still available as part of the documentation source
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archive.
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\begin{description}
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\item[ni]
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\item[\module{ni}]
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--- Import modules in ``packages.'' Basic package support is now
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built in.
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\item[rand]
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\item[\module{rand}]
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--- Old interface to the random number generator.
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\item[soundex]
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\item[\module{soundex}]
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--- Algorithm for collapsing names which sound similar to a shared
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key. (This is an extension module.)
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\end{description}
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\section{Extension modules}
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\begin{description}
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\item[dlmodule.c]
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--- A highly experimental and dangerous device for calling
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arbitrary \C{} functions in arbitrary shared libraries.
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\item[nismodule.c]
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--- NIS (a.k.a. Sun's Yellow Pages) interface.
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\item[stdwinmodule.c]
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\item[\module{stdwin}]
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--- Interface to STDWIN (an old, unsupported
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platform-independent GUI package). Obsolete; use Tkinter for a
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platform-independent GUI instead.
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platform-independent GUI package). Obsolete; use \module{Tkinter} for
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a platform-independent GUI instead.
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\end{description}
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The following are SGI specific, and may be out of touch with the
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current version of reality.
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\begin{description}
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\item[clmodule.c]
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\item[\module{cl}]
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--- Interface to the SGI compression library.
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\item[svmodule.c]
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\item[\module{sv}]
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--- Interface to the ``simple video'' board on SGI Indigo
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(obsolete hardware).
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\end{description}
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