\documentclass{manual} % NOTE: this file controls which chapters/sections of the library % manual are actually printed. It is easy to customize your manual % by commenting out sections that you're not interested in. \title{Python Library Reference} \input{boilerplate} \makeindex % tell \index to actually write the % .idx file \makemodindex % ... and the module index as well. \begin{document} \maketitle \ifhtml \chapter*{Front Matter\label{front}} \fi \input{copyright} \begin{abstract} \noindent Python is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented programming language. It supports a wide range of applications, from simple text processing scripts to interactive Web browsers. While the \citetitle[../ref/ref.html]{Python Reference Manual} describes the exact syntax and semantics of the language, it does not describe the standard library that is distributed with the language, and which greatly enhances its immediate usability. This library contains built-in modules (written in C) that provide access to system functionality such as file I/O that would otherwise be inaccessible to Python programmers, as well as modules written in Python that provide standardized solutions for many problems that occur in everyday programming. Some of these modules are explicitly designed to encourage and enhance the portability of Python programs. This library reference manual documents Python's standard library, as well as many optional library modules (which may or may not be available, depending on whether the underlying platform supports them and on the configuration choices made at compile time). It also documents the standard types of the language and its built-in functions and exceptions, many of which are not or incompletely documented in the Reference Manual. This manual assumes basic knowledge about the Python language. For an informal introduction to Python, see the \citetitle[../tut/tut.html]{Python Tutorial}; the \citetitle[../ref/ref.html]{Python Reference Manual} remains the highest authority on syntactic and semantic questions. Finally, the manual entitled \citetitle[../ext/ext.html]{Extending and Embedding the Python Interpreter} describes how to add new extensions to Python and how to embed it in other applications. \end{abstract} \tableofcontents % Chapter title: \input{libintro} % Introduction % ============= % BUILT-INs % ============= \input{libobjs} % Built-in Exceptions and Functions \input{libfuncs} \input{libexcs} \input{libconsts} \input{libstdtypes} % Built-in types % ============= % BASIC/GENERAL-PURPOSE OBJECTS % ============= % Strings \input{libstrings} % String Services \input{libstring} \input{libre} \input{libstruct} % XXX also/better in File Formats? \input{libdifflib} \input{libstringio} \input{libtextwrap} \input{libcodecs} \input{libunicodedata} \input{libstringprep} \input{libfpformat} \input{datatypes} % Data types and structures \input{libdatetime} \input{libcalendar} \input{libcollections} \input{libheapq} \input{libbisect} \input{libarray} \input{libsched} \input{libmutex} \input{libqueue} \input{libweakref} \input{libuserdict} % General object services % XXX intro \input{libtypes} \input{libnew} \input{libcopy} \input{libpprint} \input{librepr} \input{numeric} % Numeric/Mathematical modules \input{libmath} \input{libcmath} \input{libdecimal} \input{librandom} % Functions, Functional, Generators and Iterators % XXX intro functional \input{libitertools} \input{libfunctools} \input{liboperator} % from runtime - better with itertools and functools % ============= % DATA FORMATS % ============= % Big move - include all the markup and internet formats here % MIME & email stuff \input{netdata} % Internet Data Handling \input{email} \input{libmailcap} \input{libmailbox} \input{libmhlib} \input{libmimetools} \input{libmimetypes} \input{libmultifile} \input{librfc822} % encoding stuff \input{libbase64} \input{libbinhex} \input{libbinascii} \input{libquopri} \input{libuu} \input{markup} % Structured Markup Processing Tools \input{libhtmlparser} \input{libsgmllib} \input{libhtmllib} \input{libpyexpat} \input{xmldom} \input{xmldomminidom} \input{xmldompulldom} \input{xmlsax} \input{xmlsaxhandler} \input{xmlsaxutils} \input{xmlsaxreader} \input{libetree} \input{fileformats} % Miscellaneous file formats \input{libcsv} \input{libcfgparser} \input{librobotparser} \input{libnetrc} \input{libxdrlib} \input{libcrypto} % Cryptographic Services \input{libhashlib} \input{libhmac} % ============= % FILE & DATABASE STORAGE % ============= \input{filesys} % File/directory support \input{libposixpath} % os.path \input{libfileinput} \input{libstat} \input{libstatvfs} \input{libfilecmp} \input{libtempfile} \input{libglob} \input{libfnmatch} \input{liblinecache} \input{libshutil} \input{libdircache} \input{archiving} % Data compression and archiving \input{libzlib} \input{libgzip} \input{libbz2} \input{libzipfile} \input{libtarfile} \input{persistence} % Persistent storage \input{libpickle} \input{libcopyreg} % really copy_reg % from runtime... \input{libshelve} \input{libmarshal} \input{libanydbm} \input{libwhichdb} \input{libdbm} \input{libgdbm} \input{libdbhash} \input{libbsddb} \input{libdumbdbm} \input{libsqlite3} % ============= % OS % ============= \input{liballos} % Generic Operating System Services \input{libos} \input{libtime} \input{liboptparse} \input{libgetopt} \input{liblogging} \input{libgetpass} \input{libcurses} \input{libascii} % curses.ascii \input{libcursespanel} \input{libplatform} \input{liberrno} \input{libctypes} \input{libsomeos} % Optional Operating System Services \input{libselect} \input{libthread} \input{libthreading} \input{libdummythread} \input{libdummythreading} \input{libmmap} \input{libreadline} \input{librlcompleter} \input{libunix} % UNIX Specific Services \input{libposix} \input{libpwd} \input{libspwd} \input{libgrp} \input{libcrypt} \input{libdl} \input{libtermios} \input{libtty} \input{libpty} \input{libfcntl} \input{libpipes} \input{libresource} \input{libnis} \input{libsyslog} \input{libcommands} % ============= % NETWORK & COMMUNICATIONS % ============= \input{ipc} % Interprocess communication/networking \input{libsubprocess} \input{libsocket} \input{libsignal} \input{libasyncore} \input{libasynchat} \input{internet} % Internet Protocols \input{libwebbrowser} \input{libcgi} \input{libcgitb} \input{libwsgiref} \input{liburllib} \input{liburllib2} \input{libhttplib} \input{libftplib} \input{libpoplib} \input{libimaplib} \input{libnntplib} \input{libsmtplib} \input{libsmtpd} \input{libtelnetlib} \input{libuuid} \input{liburlparse} \input{libsocksvr} \input{libbasehttp} \input{libsimplehttp} \input{libcgihttp} \input{libcookielib} \input{libcookie} \input{libxmlrpclib} \input{libsimplexmlrpc} \input{libdocxmlrpc} % ============= % MULTIMEDIA % ============= \input{libmm} % Multimedia Services \input{libaudioop} \input{libaifc} \input{libsunau} \input{libwave} \input{libchunk} \input{libcolorsys} \input{libimghdr} \input{libsndhdr} \input{libossaudiodev} % Tkinter is a chapter in its own right. \input{tkinter} % % Internationalization \input{i18n} \input{libgettext} \input{liblocale} % ============= % PROGRAM FRAMEWORKS % ============= \input{frameworks} \input{libcmd} \input{libshlex} % ============= % DEVELOPMENT TOOLS % ============= % % Software development support \input{development} \input{libpydoc} \input{libdoctest} \input{libunittest} \input{libtest} \input{libpdb} % The Python Debugger \input{libprofile} % The Python Profiler \input{libhotshot} % unmaintained C profiler \input{libtimeit} \input{libtrace} % ============= % PYTHON ENGINE % ============= % Runtime services \input{libpython} % Python Runtime Services \input{libsys} \input{libbltin} % really __builtin__ \input{libmain} % really __main__ \input{libwarnings} \input{libcontextlib} \input{libatexit} \input{libtraceback} \input{libfuture} % really __future__ \input{libgc} \input{libinspect} \input{libsite} \input{libuser} \input{libfpectl} \input{custominterp} % Custom interpreter \input{libcode} \input{libcodeop} \input{modules} % Importing Modules \input{libimp} \input{libzipimport} \input{libpkgutil} \input{libmodulefinder} \input{librunpy} % ============= % PYTHON LANGUAGE & COMPILER % ============= \input{language} % Python Language Services \input{libparser} \input{libsymbol} \input{libtoken} \input{libkeyword} \input{libtokenize} \input{libtabnanny} \input{libpyclbr} \input{libpycompile} % really py_compile \input{libcompileall} \input{libdis} \input{libpickletools} \input{distutils} \input{libast} \input{libmisc} % Miscellaneous Services \input{libformatter} % ============= % OTHER PLATFORM-SPECIFIC STUFF % ============= \input{libsun} % SUNOS ONLY \input{libsunaudio} % XXX(nnorwitz): the modules below this comment should be kept. \input{windows} % MS Windows ONLY \input{libmsilib} \input{libmsvcrt} \input{libwinreg} \input{libwinsound} \appendix \input{libundoc} %\chapter{Obsolete Modules} %\input{libcmpcache} %\input{libcmp} %\input{libni} \chapter{Reporting Bugs} \input{reportingbugs} \chapter{History and License} \input{license} % % The ugly "%begin{latexonly}" pseudo-environments are really just to % keep LaTeX2HTML quiet during the \renewcommand{} macros; they're % not really valuable. % %begin{latexonly} \renewcommand{\indexname}{Module Index} %end{latexonly} \input{modlib.ind} % Module Index %begin{latexonly} \renewcommand{\indexname}{Index} %end{latexonly} \input{lib.ind} % Index \end{document}