Python Module of the Week¶

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• Builtin Objects
  • exceptions – Builtin error classes

• String Services
  • difflib – Compute differences between sequences
  • string – Working with text
  • StringIO and cStringIO – Work with text buffers using file-like API
  • struct – Working with Binary Data
  • textwrap – Formatting text paragraphs

• Data Types
  • array – Sequence of fixed-type data
  • datetime – Date/time value manipulation
  • calendar – Work with dates
  • collections – Container data types
  • heapq – In-place heap sort algorithm
  • bisect – Maintain lists in sorted order
  • sched
  • Queue
  • weakref
  • copy – Duplicate objects
  • pprint

• Numeric and Mathematical Modules
  • itertools – Iterator functions for efficient looping
  • functools – Tools for making decorators and other function wrappers.
  • operator

• Internet Data Handling
  • base64 – Encode binary data into ASCII characters
  • mailbox – Access and manipulate email archives
  • mhlib – Work with MH mailboxes

• File Formats
  • csv – Comma-separated value files
  • ConfigParser – Work with configuration files

• Cryptographic Services
  • hashlib – Cryptographic hashes and message digests
  • hmac – Cryptographic signature and verification of messages.

• File and Directory Access
  • os.path
  • fileinput
  • filecmp – Compare files
  • tempfile
  • glob
  • fnmatch – Compare filenames against Unix-style glob patterns.
  • linecache – Read text files efficiently
  • shutil
  • dircache – Cache directory listings

• Data Compression and Archiving
  • zipfile

• Data Persistence
  • anydbm – Access to DBM-style databases
  • dbhash – DBM-style API for the BSD database library
  • dbm – Simple database interface
  • dumbdbm – Portable DBM Implementation
  • gdbm – GNU’s version of the dbm library
  • pickle and cPickle
  • shelve – Persistent storage of arbitrary Python objects
  • whichdb – Identify DBM-style database formats

• Generic Operating System Services
  • os
  • time
  • optparse
  • getopt – Command line option parsing
  • logging
  • getpass – Prompt the user for a password without echoing.
  • platform

• Optional Operating System Services
  • threading
  • mmap

• Unix-specific Services
  • commands – Run external shell commands

• Interprocess Communication and Networking
  • signal
  • subprocess

• Internet Protocols and Support
  • BaseHTTPServer – base classes for implementing web servers
  • Cookie – HTTP Cookies
  • imaplib - IMAP4 client library
  • SimpleXMLRPCServer
  • smtpd – Sample SMTP Servers
  • smtplib – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol client
  • SocketServer
  • urllib
  • urlparse
  • uuid – Universally unique identifiers
  • webbrowser – Displays web pages
  • xmlrpclib

• Internationalization
  • locale

• Program Frameworks
  • cmd – Create line-oriented command processors
  • shlex

• Development Tools
  • unittest

• Debugging and Profiling
  • profile, cProfile, and pstats
  • timeit
  • trace – Follow Python statements as they are executed

• Python Runtime Services
  • atexit – Call functions when a program is closing down
  • contextlib – Context manager utilities
  • inspect – Inspect live objects
  • traceback
  • warnings

• Importing Modules
  • imp – Interface to module import mechanism.
  • pkgutil
  • zipimport

• Miscelaneous
  • EasyDialogs – Carbon dialogs for Mac OS X