The modules described in this chapter provide miscellaneous services that are available in all Python versions. Here's an overview:
pydoc | Documentation generator and online help system. | |
doctest | A framework for verifying examples in docstrings. | |
unittest | Unit testing framework for Python. | |
math | Mathematical functions (sin() etc.). | |
cmath | Mathematical functions for complex numbers. | |
random | Generate pseudo-random numbers with various common distributions. | |
whrandom | Floating point pseudo-random number generator. | |
bisect | Array bisection algorithms for binary searching. | |
array | Efficient arrays of uniformly typed numeric values. | |
ConfigParser | Configuration file parser. | |
fileinput | Perl-like iteration over lines from multiple input streams, with ``save in place'' capability. | |
xreadlines | Efficient iteration over the lines of a file. | |
calendar | Functions for working with calendars, including some emulation of the Unix cal program. | |
cmd | Build line-oriented command interpreters. | |
shlex | Simple lexical analysis for Unix shell-like languages. |