The modules described in this chapter provide interfaces to operating
system features that are available on selected operating systems only.
The interfaces are generally modeled 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 |
Low-level networking interface. |
| select |
Wait for I/O completion on multiple streams. |
| thread |
Create multiple threads of control within one interpreter. |
| threading |
Higher-level threading interface. |
| mutex |
Lock and queue for mutual exclusion. |
| Queue |
A synchronized queue class. |
| mmap |
Interface to memory-mapped files for Unix and Windows. |
| anydbm |
Generic interface to DBM-style database modules. |
| dumbdbm |
Portable implementation of the simple DBM interface. |
| dbhash |
DBM-style interface to the BSD database library. |
| whichdb |
Guess which DBM-style module created a given database. |
| bsddb |
Interface to Berkeley DB database library |
| zlib |
Low-level interface to compression and decompression
routines compatible with gzip. |
| gzip |
Interfaces for gzip compression and
decompression using file objects. |
| zipfile |
Read and write ZIP-format archive files. |
| readline |
GNU readline support for Python. |
| rlcompleter |
Python identifier completion for the GNU readline library. |
