Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Built-in Types, Exceptions and Functions
  • 2.1 Built-in Types
    • 2.1.1 Truth Value Testing
    • 2.1.2 Boolean Operations
    • 2.1.3 Comparisons
    • 2.1.4 Numeric Types
    • 2.1.5 Sequence Types
    • 2.1.6 Mapping Types
    • 2.1.7 Other Built-in Types
    • 2.1.8 Special Attributes
  • 2.2 Built-in Exceptions
  • 2.3 Built-in Functions
• 3. Python Services
  • 3.1 Built-in Module sys
  • 3.2 Standard Module types
  • 3.3 Standard Module UserDict
  • 3.4 Standard Module UserList
  • 3.5 Built-in Module operator
  • 3.6 Standard Module traceback
  • 3.7 Standard Module pickle
  • 3.8 Built-in Module cPickle
  • 3.9 Standard Module copy_reg
  • 3.10 Standard Module shelve
  • 3.11 Standard Module copy
  • 3.12 Built-in Module marshal
  • 3.13 Built-in Module imp
    • 3.13.1 Examples
  • 3.14 Built-in Module parser
    • 3.14.1 Creating AST Objects
    • 3.14.2 Converting AST Objects
    • 3.14.3 Queries on AST Objects
    • 3.14.4 Exceptions and Error Handling
    • 3.14.5 AST Objects
    • 3.14.6 Examples
  • 3.15 Standard Module symbol
  • 3.16 Standard Module token
  • 3.17 Standard Module keyword
  • 3.18 Standard Module code
  • 3.19 Standard Module pprint
    • 3.19.1 PrettyPrinter Objects
  • 3.20 Standard Module dis
    • 3.20.1 Python Byte Code Instructions
  • 3.21 Standard Module site
  • 3.22 Standard Module user
  • 3.23 Built-in Module __builtin__
  • 3.24 Built-in Module __main__
• 4. String Services
  • 4.1 Standard Module string
  • 4.2 Built-in Module re
    • 4.2.1 Regular Expression Syntax
    • 4.2.2 Module Contents
    • 4.2.3 Regular Expression Objects
    • 4.2.4 Match Objects
  • 4.3 Built-in Module regex
    • 4.3.1 Regular Expressions
    • 4.3.2 Module Contents
  • 4.4 Standard Module regsub
  • 4.5 Built-in Module struct
  • 4.6 Standard Module StringIO
  • 4.7 Built-in Module cStringIO
• 5. Miscellaneous Services
  • 5.1 Built-in Module math
  • 5.2 Built-in Module cmath
  • 5.3 Standard Module whrandom
  • 5.4 Standard Module random
  • 5.5 Standard Module bisect
    • 5.5.1 Example
  • 5.6 Built-in Module array
  • 5.7 Standard Module fileinput
  • 5.8 Standard Module calendar
  • 5.9 Standard Module cmd
    • 5.9.1 Cmd Objects
• 6. Generic Operating System Services
  • 6.1 Standard Module os
  • 6.2 Built-in Module time
  • 6.3 Standard Module getopt
  • 6.4 Standard Module tempfile
  • 6.5 Standard Module errno
  • 6.6 Standard Module glob
  • 6.7 Standard Module fnmatch
  • 6.8 Standard Module locale
    • 6.8.1 Background, details, hints, tips and caveats
    • 6.8.2 For extension writers and programs that embed Python
• 7. Optional Operating System Services
  • 7.1 Built-in Module signal
  • 7.2 Built-in Module socket
    • 7.2.1 Socket Objects
    • 7.2.2 Example
  • 7.3 Built-in Module select
  • 7.4 Built-in Module thread
  • 7.5 Standard Module threading
    • 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
  • 7.6 Standard Module Queue
    • 7.6.1 Queue Objects
  • 7.7 Standard Module anydbm
  • 7.8 Standard Module dumbdbm
  • 7.9 Standard Module whichdb
  • 7.10 Built-in Module zlib
  • 7.11 Standard Module gzip
• 8. Unix Specific Services
  • 8.1 Built-in Module posix
  • 8.2 Standard Module posixpath
  • 8.3 Built-in Module pwd
  • 8.4 Built-in Module grp
  • 8.5 Built-in Module crypt
  • 8.6 Built-in Module dbm
  • 8.7 Built-in Module gdbm
  • 8.8 Built-in Module termios
    • 8.8.1 Example
  • 8.9 Standard Module TERMIOS
  • 8.10 Built-in Module fcntl
  • 8.11 Standard Module posixfile
  • 8.12 Built-in Module resource
    • 8.12.1 Resource Limits
    • 8.12.2 Resource Usage
  • 8.13 Built-in Module syslog
  • 8.14 Standard Module stat
  • 8.15 Standard Module popen2
    • 8.15.1 Popen3 Objects
  • 8.16 Standard Module commands
• 9. The Python Debugger
  • 9.1 Debugger Commands
  • 9.2 How It Works
• 10. The Python Profiler
  • 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
    • 10.8.1 OldProfile Class
    • 10.8.2 HotProfile Class
• 11. Internet and WWW Services
  • 11.1 Standard Module cgi
    • 11.1.1 Introduction
    • 11.1.2 Using the cgi module
    • 11.1.3 Old classes
    • 11.1.4 Functions
    • 11.1.5 Caring about security
    • 11.1.6 Installing your CGI script on a Unix system
    • 11.1.7 Testing your CGI script
    • 11.1.8 Debugging CGI scripts
    • 11.1.9 Common problems and solutions
  • 11.2 Standard Module urllib
  • 11.3 Standard Module httplib
    • 11.3.1 HTTP Objects
    • 11.3.2 Example
  • 11.4 Standard Module ftplib
    • 11.4.1 FTP Objects
  • 11.5 Standard Module gopherlib
  • 11.6 Standard Module poplib
    • 11.6.1 POP3 Objects
    • 11.6.2 POP3 Example
  • 11.7 Standard Module imaplib
    • 11.7.1 IMAP4 Objects
    • 11.7.2 IMAP4 Example
  • 11.8 Standard Module nntplib
    • 11.8.1 NNTP Objects
  • 11.9 Standard Module smtplib
    • 11.9.1 SMTP Objects
    • 11.9.2 SMTP Example
  • 11.10 Standard Module urlparse
  • 11.11 Standard Module sgmllib
  • 11.12 Standard Module htmllib
  • 11.13 Standard Module xmllib
  • 11.14 Standard Module formatter
    • 11.14.1 The Formatter Interface
    • 11.14.2 Formatter Implementations
    • 11.14.3 The Writer Interface
    • 11.14.4 Writer Implementations
  • 11.15 Standard Module rfc822
    • 11.15.1 Message Objects
    • 11.15.2 AddressList Objects
  • 11.16 Standard Module mimetools
    • 11.16.1 Additional Methods of Message objects
  • 11.17 Standard Module multifile
    • 11.17.1 MultiFile Objects
    • 11.17.2 Multifile Example
  • 11.18 Standard Module binhex
    • 11.18.1 Notes
  • 11.19 Standard Module uu
  • 11.20 Built-in Module binascii
  • 11.21 Standard Module xdrlib
    • 11.21.1 Packer Objects
    • 11.21.2 Unpacker Objects
    • 11.21.3 Exceptions
  • 11.22 Standard Module mailcap
  • 11.23 Standard Module mimetypes
  • 11.24 Standard Module base64
  • 11.25 Standard Module quopri
  • 11.26 Standard Module SocketServer
  • 11.27 Standard Module mailbox
    • 11.27.1 Mailbox Objects
  • 11.28 Standard Module mimify
  • 11.29 Standard Module BaseHTTPServer
• 12. Restricted Execution
  • 12.1 Standard Module rexec
    • 12.1.1 An example
  • 12.2 Standard Module Bastion
• 13. Multimedia Services
  • 13.1 Built-in Module audioop
  • 13.2 Built-in Module imageop
  • 13.3 Standard Module aifc
  • 13.4 Built-in Module jpeg
  • 13.5 Built-in Module rgbimg
  • 13.6 Standard Module imghdr
• 14. Cryptographic Services
  • 14.1 Built-in Module md5
  • 14.2 Built-in Module mpz
  • 14.3 Built-in Module rotor
• 15. SGI IRIX Specific Services
  • 15.1 Built-in Module al
    • 15.1.1 Configuration Objects
    • 15.1.2 Port Objects
  • 15.2 Standard Module AL
  • 15.3 Built-in Module cd
    • 15.3.1 Player Objects
    • 15.3.2 Parser Objects
  • 15.4 Built-in Module fl
    • 15.4.1 Functions Defined in Module fl
    • 15.4.2 Form Objects
    • 15.4.3 FORMS Objects
  • 15.5 Standard Module FL
  • 15.6 Standard Module flp
  • 15.7 Built-in Module fm
  • 15.8 Built-in Module gl
  • 15.9 Standard Module DEVICE
  • 15.10 Standard Module GL
  • 15.11 Built-in Module imgfile
• 16. SunOS Specific Services
  • 16.1 Built-in Module sunaudiodev
    • 16.1.1 Audio Device Objects
• 17. Undocumented Modules
  • 17.1 Frameworks; somewhat harder to document, but well worth the effort
  • 17.2 Stuff useful to a lot of people, including the CGI crowd
  • 17.3 Miscellaneous useful utilities
  • 17.4 Parsing Python
  • 17.5 Platform specific modules
  • 17.6 Code objects and files, debugger etc.
  • 17.7 Multimedia
  • 17.8 Oddities
  • 17.9 Obsolete
  • 17.10 Extension modules
• Module Index
• Index