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 operating system 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. |
| datetime |
|
Basic date and time types. |
| 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. |
| optparse |
|
Powerful, flexible, extensible, easy-to-use command-line parsing
library. |
| tempfile |
|
Generate temporary files and directories. |
| 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. |
| logging |
|
Logging module for Python based on PEP 282. |
