The modules described in this chapter provide interfaces to operating
system features that are available on selected operating systems only.
The interfaces are generally modelled after the Unix or C
interfaces but they are available on some other systems as well
(e.g. Windows or NT). Here's an overview:
- signal
-
-- Set handlers for asynchronous events.
- socket
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-- Low-level networking interface.
- select
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-- Wait for I/O completion on multiple streams.
- thread
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-- Create multiple threads of control within one namespace.
- Queue
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-- A stynchronized queue class.
- anydbm
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-- Generic interface to DBM-style database modules.
- whichdb
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-- Guess which DBM-style module created a given database.
- zlib
-
- gzip
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-- Compression and decompression compatible with the
gzip program (zlib is the low-level interface, gzip the
high-level one).
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