19.6 Obsolete

These modules are not on the standard module search path; but are available in the directory lib-old/ installed under $prefix/lib/python1.5/. To use any of these modules, add that directory to sys.path, possibly using $PYTHONPATH.

newdir.py

-- New dir() function (the standard dir() is now just as good)

addpack.py

-- standard support for "packages"

codehack.py

-- Extract function name or line number from a function code object (these are now accessible as attributes: co.co_name, func.func_name, co.co_firstlineno).

fmt.py

-- text formatting abstractions (too slow)

Para.py

-- helper for fmt.py

lockfile.py

-- wrapper around FCNTL file locking (use fcntl.lockf()/flock() intead)

poly.py

-- Polynomials

tb.py

-- Print tracebacks, with a dump of local variables (use pdb.pm() or traceback instead)

timingmodule

-- Measure time intervals to high resolution (use time.clock() instead). (This is an extension module.)

whatsound.py

-- Recognize sound files; use sndhdr instead.

zmod.py

-- Compute properties of mathematical "fields"

The following modules were documented in previous versions of this manual, but are now considered obsolete:

ni

-- Import modules in ``packages.'' Basic package support is now built in.

rand

-- Old interface to the random number generator.

soundex

-- Algorithm for collapsing names which sound similar to a shared key. (This is an extension module.)