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<h1>Python Module Index</h1>
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<a href="abc/index.html#module-abc"><tt class="xref">abc</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Abstract Base Classes</em></td></tr>
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<td>
<a href="anydbm/index.html#module-anydbm"><tt class="xref">anydbm</tt></a></td><td>
<em>anydbm provides a generic dictionary-like interface to DBM-style, string-keyed databases</em></td></tr>
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<a href="argparse/index.html#module-argparse"><tt class="xref">argparse</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Command line option and argument parsing.</em></td></tr>
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<a href="array/index.html#module-array"><tt class="xref">array</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Manage sequences of fixed-type numerical data efficiently.</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="asynchat/index.html#module-asynchat"><tt class="xref">asynchat</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Asynchronous protocol handler</em></td></tr>
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<td>
<a href="asyncore/index.html#module-asyncore"><tt class="xref">asyncore</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Asynchronous I/O handler</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="atexit/index.html#module-atexit"><tt class="xref">atexit</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Register function(s) to be called when a program is closing down.</em></td></tr>
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<strong>b</strong></a></td><td></td></tr>
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<td>
<a href="base64/index.html#module-base64"><tt class="xref">base64</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Encode binary data into ASCII characters.</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="BaseHTTPServer/index.html#module-BaseHTTPServer"><tt class="xref">BaseHTTPServer</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Provides base classes for implementing web servers.</em></td></tr>
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<td>
<a href="bisect/index.html#module-bisect"><tt class="xref">bisect</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Maintains a list in sorted order without having to call sort each time an item is added to the list.</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="bz2/index.html#module-bz2"><tt class="xref">bz2</tt></a></td><td>
<em>bzip2 compression</em></td></tr>
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<strong>c</strong></a></td><td></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="calendar/index.html#module-calendar"><tt class="xref">calendar</tt></a></td><td>
<em>The calendar module implements classes for working with dates to manage year/month/week oriented values.</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="cgitb/index.html#module-cgitb"><tt class="xref">cgitb</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Mis-named module that provides extended traceback information.</em></td></tr>
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<td>
<a href="cmd/index.html#module-cmd"><tt class="xref">cmd</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Create line-oriented command processors.</em></td></tr>
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<td>
<a href="codecs/index.html#module-codecs"><tt class="xref">codecs</tt></a></td><td>
<em>String encoding and decoding.</em></td></tr>
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<a href="collections/index.html#module-collections"><tt class="xref">collections</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Container data types.</em></td></tr>
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<a href="commands/index.html#module-commands"><tt class="xref">commands</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Run external shell commands and capture the status code and output.</em></td></tr>
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<a href="compileall/index.html#module-compileall"><tt class="xref">compileall</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Byte-compile Source Files</em></td></tr>
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<td>
<a href="ConfigParser/index.html#module-ConfigParser"><tt class="xref">ConfigParser</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Read/write configuration files similar to Windows INI files</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="contextlib/index.html#module-contextlib"><tt class="xref">contextlib</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Utilities for creating and working with context managers.</em></td></tr>
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<a href="Cookie/index.html#module-Cookie"><tt class="xref">Cookie</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Working with HTTP cookies from the server side.</em></td></tr>
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<td>
<a href="copy/index.html#module-copy"><tt class="xref">copy</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Provides functions for duplicating objects using shallow or deep copy semantics.</em></td></tr>
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<td>
<a href="pickle/index.html#module-cPickle"><tt class="xref">cPickle</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Python object serialization</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="profile/index.html#module-cProfile"><tt class="xref">cProfile</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Performance analysis of Python programs.</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="StringIO/index.html#module-cStringIO"><tt class="xref">cStringIO</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Work with text buffers using file-like API</em></td></tr>
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<a href="csv/index.html#module-csv"><tt class="xref">csv</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Read and write comma separated value files.</em></td></tr>
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<strong>d</strong></a></td><td></td></tr>
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<td>
<a href="datetime/index.html#module-datetime"><tt class="xref">datetime</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Date/time value manipulation.</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="dbhash/index.html#module-dbhash"><tt class="xref">dbhash</tt></a></td><td>
<em>DBM-style API for the BSD database library</em></td></tr>
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<td>
<a href="dbm/index.html#module-dbm"><tt class="xref">dbm</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Simple database interface</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="decimal/index.html#module-decimal"><tt class="xref">decimal</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Fixed and floating point math</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="difflib/index.html#module-difflib"><tt class="xref">difflib</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Compare sequences, especially lines of text.</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="dircache/index.html#module-dircache"><tt class="xref">dircache</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Cache directory listings</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="dis/index.html#module-dis"><tt class="xref">dis</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Python Bytecode Disassembler</em></td></tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>
<a href="doctest/index.html#module-doctest"><tt class="xref">doctest</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Write automated tests as part of the documentation for a module.</em></td></tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>
<a href="dumbdbm/index.html#module-dumbdbm"><tt class="xref">dumbdbm</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Portable DBM Implementation</em></td></tr>
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<strong>e</strong></a></td><td></td></tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>
<a href="EasyDialogs/index.html#module-EasyDialogs"><tt class="xref">EasyDialogs</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Provides simple interfaces to Carbon dialogs from Python.</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="exceptions/index.html#module-exceptions"><tt class="xref">exceptions</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Built-in error classes</em></td></tr>
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<strong>f</strong></a></td><td></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="filecmp/index.html#module-filecmp"><tt class="xref">filecmp</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Compare files and directories on the filesystem.</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="fileinput/index.html#module-fileinput"><tt class="xref">fileinput</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Process lines from input streams.</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="fnmatch/index.html#module-fnmatch"><tt class="xref">fnmatch</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Compare filenames against Unix-style glob patterns.</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="fractions/index.html#module-fractions"><tt class="xref">fractions</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Implements a class for working with rational numbers.</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="functools/index.html#module-functools"><tt class="xref">functools</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Tools for working with functions.</em></td></tr>
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<strong>g</strong></a></td><td></td></tr>
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<td>
<a href="gc/index.html#module-gc"><tt class="xref">gc</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Garbage Collector</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="gdbm/index.html#module-gdbm"><tt class="xref">gdbm</tt></a></td><td>
<em>GNU's version of the dbm library</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="getopt/index.html#module-getopt"><tt class="xref">getopt</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Command line option parsing</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="getpass/index.html#module-getpass"><tt class="xref">getpass</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Prompt the user for a value, usually a password, without echoing what they type to the console.</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="gettext/index.html#module-gettext"><tt class="xref">gettext</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Message Catalogs</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
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<a href="glob/index.html#module-glob"><tt class="xref">glob</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Use Unix shell rules to fine filenames matching a pattern.</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
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<a href="grp/index.html#module-grp"><tt class="xref">grp</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Unix Group Database</em></td></tr>
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<a href="gzip/index.html#module-gzip"><tt class="xref">gzip</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Read and write gzip files</em></td></tr>
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<strong>h</strong></a></td><td></td></tr>
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<td>
<a href="hashlib/index.html#module-hashlib"><tt class="xref">hashlib</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Cryptographic hashes and message digests</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="heapq/index.html#module-heapq"><tt class="xref">heapq</tt></a></td><td>
<em>In-place heap sort algorithm</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="hmac/index.html#module-hmac"><tt class="xref">hmac</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Cryptographic signature and verification of messages.</em></td></tr>
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<strong>i</strong></a></td><td></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="imaplib/index.html#module-imaplib"><tt class="xref">imaplib</tt></a></td><td>
<em>IMAP4 client library</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="imp/index.html#module-imp"><tt class="xref">imp</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Interface to module import mechanism.</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="inspect/index.html#module-inspect"><tt class="xref">inspect</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Inspect live objects</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="itertools/index.html#module-itertools"><tt class="xref">itertools</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Iterator functions for efficient looping</em></td></tr>
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<strong>j</strong></a></td><td></td></tr>
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<a href="json/index.html#module-json"><tt class="xref">json</tt></a></td><td>
<em>JavaScript Object Notation Serializer</em></td></tr>
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<strong>l</strong></a></td><td></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="linecache/index.html#module-linecache"><tt class="xref">linecache</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Retrieve lines of text from files or imported python modules, holding a cache of the results to make reading many lines from the same file more efficient.</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="locale/index.html#module-locale"><tt class="xref">locale</tt></a></td><td>
<em>POSIX cultural localization API</em></td></tr>
<tr>
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<td>
<a href="logging/index.html#module-logging"><tt class="xref">logging</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Report status, error, and informational messages.</em></td></tr>
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<strong>m</strong></a></td><td></td></tr>
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<a href="mailbox/index.html#module-mailbox"><tt class="xref">mailbox</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Access and manipulate email archives.</em></td></tr>
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<a href="math/index.html#module-math"><tt class="xref">math</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Mathematical functions</em></td></tr>
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<a href="mhlib/index.html#module-mhlib"><tt class="xref">mhlib</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Work with MH mailboxes</em></td></tr>
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<td>
<a href="mmap/index.html#module-mmap"><tt class="xref">mmap</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Memory-map files</em></td></tr>
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<a href="multiprocessing/index.html#module-multiprocessing"><tt class="xref">multiprocessing</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Manage processes like threads.</em></td></tr>
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<strong>o</strong></a></td><td></td></tr>
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<a href="operator/index.html#module-operator"><tt class="xref">operator</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Functional interface to built-in operators</em></td></tr>
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<td>
<a href="optparse/index.html#module-optparse"><tt class="xref">optparse</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Command line option parser to replace :mod:`getopt`.</em></td></tr>
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<a href="os/index.html#module-os"><tt class="xref">os</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Portable access to operating system specific features.</em></td></tr>
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<a href="ospath/index.html#module-os.path"><tt class="xref">os.path</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Platform-independent manipulation of file names.</em></td></tr>
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<strong>p</strong></a></td><td></td></tr>
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<a href="pdb/index.html#module-pdb"><tt class="xref">pdb</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Interactive Debugger</em></td></tr>
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<a href="pickle/index.html#module-pickle"><tt class="xref">pickle</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Python object serialization</em></td></tr>
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<a href="pipes/index.html#module-pipes"><tt class="xref">pipes</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Unix shell command pipeline templates</em></td></tr>
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<a href="pkgutil/index.html#module-pkgutil"><tt class="xref">pkgutil</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Package utilities</em></td></tr>
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<a href="platform/index.html#module-platform"><tt class="xref">platform</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Access system hardware, OS, and interpreter version information.</em></td></tr>
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<a href="plistlib/index.html#module-plistlib"><tt class="xref">plistlib</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Manipulate OS X property list files</em></td></tr>
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<a href="pprint/index.html#module-pprint"><tt class="xref">pprint</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Pretty-print data structures</em></td></tr>
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<td>
<a href="profile/index.html#module-profile"><tt class="xref">profile</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Performance analysis of Python programs.</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="profile/index.html#module-pstats"><tt class="xref">pstats</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Manipulate and analyze profile statistics.</em></td></tr>
<tr>
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<td>
<a href="pwd/index.html#module-pwd"><tt class="xref">pwd</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Unix Password Database</em></td></tr>
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<a href="pyclbr/index.html#module-pyclbr"><tt class="xref">pyclbr</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Python class browser support</em></td></tr>
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<td>
<a href="pydoc/index.html#module-pydoc"><tt class="xref">pydoc</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Online help for Python modules</em></td></tr>
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<strong>q</strong></a></td><td></td></tr>
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<a href="Queue/index.html#module-Queue"><tt class="xref">Queue</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Provides a thread-safe FIFO implementation</em></td></tr>
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<td>
<a href="random/index.html#module-random"><tt class="xref">random</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Pseudorandom number generators</em></td></tr>
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<td>
<a href="re/index.html#module-re"><tt class="xref">re</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Searching within and changing text using formal patterns.</em></td></tr>
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<a href="readline/index.html#module-readline"><tt class="xref">readline</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Interface to the GNU readline library</em></td></tr>
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<a href="resource/index.html#module-resource"><tt class="xref">resource</tt></a></td><td>
<em>System resource management</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="rlcompleter/index.html#module-rlcompleter"><tt class="xref">rlcompleter</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Adds tab-completion to the interactive interpreter</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="robotparser/index.html#module-robotparser"><tt class="xref">robotparser</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Internet spider access control</em></td></tr>
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<tr class="cap"><td></td><td><a name="cap-s">
<strong>s</strong></a></td><td></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="sched/index.html#module-sched"><tt class="xref">sched</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Generic event scheduler.</em></td></tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>
<a href="select/index.html#module-select"><tt class="xref">select</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Wait for I/O Efficiently</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="shelve/index.html#module-shelve"><tt class="xref">shelve</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Persistent storage of arbitrary Python objects</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="shlex/index.html#module-shlex"><tt class="xref">shlex</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Lexical analysis of shell-style syntaxes.</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="shutil/index.html#module-shutil"><tt class="xref">shutil</tt></a></td><td>
<em>High-level file operations.</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="signal/index.html#module-signal"><tt class="xref">signal</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Receive notification of asynchronous system events</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="SimpleXMLRPCServer/index.html#module-SimpleXMLRPCServer"><tt class="xref">SimpleXMLRPCServer</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Implements an XML-RPC server.</em></td></tr>
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<td>
<a href="site/index.html#module-site"><tt class="xref">site</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Site-wide configuration</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="site/index.html#module-sitecustomize"><tt class="xref">sitecustomize</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Site-specific configuration</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="smtpd/index.html#module-smtpd"><tt class="xref">smtpd</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Includes classes for implementing SMTP servers.</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
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<a href="smtplib/index.html#module-smtplib"><tt class="xref">smtplib</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Simple mail transfer protocol client.</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="socket/index.html#module-socket"><tt class="xref">socket</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Network communication</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="SocketServer/index.html#module-SocketServer"><tt class="xref">SocketServer</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Creating network servers.</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="sqlite3/index.html#module-sqlite3"><tt class="xref">sqlite3</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Embedded relational database</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
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<a href="string/index.html#module-string"><tt class="xref">string</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Contains constants and classes for working with text.</em></td></tr>
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<td>
<a href="StringIO/index.html#module-StringIO"><tt class="xref">StringIO</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Work with text buffers using file-like API</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="struct/index.html#module-struct"><tt class="xref">struct</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Convert between strings and binary data.</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="subprocess/index.html#module-subprocess"><tt class="xref">subprocess</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Work with additional processes</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="sys/index.html#module-sys"><tt class="xref">sys</tt></a></td><td>
<em>System-specific configuration</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="sysconfig/index.html#module-sysconfig"><tt class="xref">sysconfig</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Interpreter Compile-time Configuration</em></td></tr>
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<strong>t</strong></a></td><td></td></tr>
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<a href="tabnanny/index.html#module-tabnanny"><tt class="xref">tabnanny</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Scan Python source code looking for suspicious indentation.</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="tarfile/index.html#module-tarfile"><tt class="xref">tarfile</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Tar archive access</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="tempfile/index.html#module-tempfile"><tt class="xref">tempfile</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Create temporary filesystem resources.</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="textwrap/index.html#module-textwrap"><tt class="xref">textwrap</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Formatting text by adjusting where line breaks occur in a paragraph.</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="threading/index.html#module-threading"><tt class="xref">threading</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Manage several concurrent threads of execution.</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="time/index.html#module-time"><tt class="xref">time</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Functions for manipulating clock time</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="timeit/index.html#module-timeit"><tt class="xref">timeit</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Time the execution of small bits of Python code.</em></td></tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>
<a href="trace/index.html#module-trace"><tt class="xref">trace</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Follow Python statements as they are executed.</em></td></tr>
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<td></td>
<td>
<a href="traceback/index.html#module-traceback"><tt class="xref">traceback</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Extract, format, and print exceptions and stack traces.</em></td></tr>
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<a href="unittest/index.html#module-unittest"><tt class="xref">unittest</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Automated testing framework</em></td></tr>
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<a href="urllib/index.html#module-urllib"><tt class="xref">urllib</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Accessing remote resources that don't need authentication, cookies, etc.</em></td></tr>
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<a href="urllib2/index.html#module-urllib2"><tt class="xref">urllib2</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Library for opening URLs.</em></td></tr>
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<a href="urlparse/index.html#module-urlparse"><tt class="xref">urlparse</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Split URL into component pieces.</em></td></tr>
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<td>
<a href="site/index.html#module-usercustomize"><tt class="xref">usercustomize</tt></a></td><td>
<em>User-specific configuration</em></td></tr>
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<a href="uuid/index.html#module-uuid"><tt class="xref">uuid</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Universally unique identifiers</em></td></tr>
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<strong>w</strong></a></td><td></td></tr>
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<a href="warnings/index.html#module-warnings"><tt class="xref">warnings</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Deliver non-fatal alerts to the user about issues encountered when running a program.</em></td></tr>
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<a href="weakref/index.html#module-weakref"><tt class="xref">weakref</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Refer to an "expensive" object, but allow it to be garbage collected if there are no other non-weak references.</em></td></tr>
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<td>
<a href="webbrowser/index.html#module-webbrowser"><tt class="xref">webbrowser</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Displays web pages</em></td></tr>
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<td>
<a href="whichdb/index.html#module-whichdb"><tt class="xref">whichdb</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Identify DBM-style database formats</em></td></tr>
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<strong>x</strong></a></td><td></td></tr>
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<em>XML Manipulation API</em></td></tr>
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<a href="xmlrpclib/index.html#module-xmlrpclib"><tt class="xref">xmlrpclib</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Client-side library for XML-RPC communication.</em></td></tr>
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<strong>z</strong></a></td><td></td></tr>
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<a href="zipfile/index.html#module-zipfile"><tt class="xref">zipfile</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Read and write ZIP archive files.</em></td></tr>
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<td>
<a href="zipimport/index.html#module-zipimport"><tt class="xref">zipimport</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Load Python code from inside ZIP archives.</em></td></tr>
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<a href="zlib/index.html#module-zlib"><tt class="xref">zlib</tt></a></td><td>
<em>Low-level access to GNU zlib compression library</em></td></tr>
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