The modules described in this chapter provide interfaces to features
that are unique to the Unix operating system, or in some cases to
some or many variants of it. Here's an overview:
| posix |
The most common POSIX<#20600#><#20600#> system calls (normally used
via module os). |
| pwd |
The password database (getpwnam() and friends). |
| grp |
The group database (getgrnam() and friends). |
| crypt |
The crypt() function used to check
Unix<#20879#><#20879#> passwords. |
| dl |
Call C functions in shared objects. |
| dbm |
The standard ``database'' interface, based on ndbm. |
| gdbm |
GNU's reinterpretation of dbm. |
| termios |
POSIX<#21241#><#21241#> style tty control. |
| TERMIOS |
Symbolic constants required to use the
termios module. |
| tty |
Utility functions that perform common terminal control
operations. |
| pty |
Pseudo-Terminal Handling for SGI and Linux. |
| fcntl |
The fcntl() and ioctl() system calls. |
| pipes |
A Python interface to Unix<#21642#><#21642#> shell pipelines. |
| posixfile |
A file-like object with support for locking. |
| resource |
An interface to provide resource usage information on
the current process. |
| nis |
Interface to Sun's NIS (a.k.a. Yellow Pages) library. |
| syslog |
An interface to the Unix<#22306#><#22306#> syslog library routines. |
| commands |
Utility functions for running external commands. |
