The modules described in this chapter provide interfaces to operating
system features that are available on (almost) all operating systems,
such as files and a clock. The interfaces are generally modeled
after the Unix or C interfaces, but they are available on most
other systems as well. Here's an overview:
| os |
Miscellaneous OS interfaces. |
| os.path |
Common pathname manipulations. |
| dircache |
Return directory listing, with cache mechanism. |
| stat |
Utilities for interpreting the results of
os.stat(), os.lstat() and os.fstat(). |
| statcache |
Stat files, and remember results. |
| statvfs |
Constants for interpreting the result of
os.statvfs(). |
| filecmp |
Compare files efficiently. |
| popen2 |
Subprocesses with accessible standard I/O streams. |
| time |
Time access and conversions. |
| sched |
General purpose event scheduler. |
| mutex |
Lock and queue for mutual exclusion. |
| getpass |
Portable reading of passwords and retrieval of the userid. |
| curses |
An interface to the curses library, providing portable
terminal handling. |
| curses.textpad |
Emacs-like input editing in a curses window. |
| curses.wrapper |
Terminal configuration wrapper for curses programs. |
| curses.ascii |
Constants and set-membership functions for
ASCII characters. |
| curses.panel |
A panel stack extension that adds depth to
curses windows. |
| getopt |
Portable parser for command line options; support both
short and long option names. |
| tempfile |
Generate temporary file names. |
| errno |
Standard errno system symbols. |
| glob |
Unix shell style pathname pattern expansion. |
| fnmatch |
Unix shell style filename pattern matching. |
| shutil |
High-level file operations, including copying. |
| locale |
Internationalization services. |
| gettext |
Multilingual internationalization services. |
