19.2 Miscellaneous useful utilities

Some of these are very old and/or not very robust; marked with ``hmm''.

cmp.py

-- Efficiently compare files

cmpcache.py

-- Efficiently compare files (uses statcache)

dircache.py

-- like os.listdir, but caches results

dircmp.py

-- class to build directory diff tools on

linecache.py

-- Cache lines from files (used by pdb)

pipes.py

-- Conversion pipeline templates (hmm)

statcache.py

-- Maintain a cache of file stats

pty.py

-- Pseudo terminal utilities

tty.py

-- Terminal utilities

bdb.py

-- A generic Python debugger base class (used by pdb)

wdb.py

-- A primitive windowing debugger based on STDWIN.

ihooks.py

-- Import hook support (for rexec)