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. |
| test |
|
Regression tests package containing the testing suite for Python. |
| test.test_support |
|
Support for Python regression tests. |
| 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. |
| heapq |
|
Heap queue algorithm (a.k.a. priority queue). |
| array |
|
Efficient arrays of uniformly typed numeric values. |
| sets |
|
Implementation of sets of unique elements. |
| itertools |
|
Functions creating iterators for efficient looping. |
| 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. |
