Python Module Index

		Python Module Index
	_
	__future__	Future statement definitions
	__main__	The environment where the top-level script is run.
	_dummy_thread	Drop-in replacement for the _thread module.
	_thread	Low-level threading API.
	a
	abc	Abstract base classes according to PEP 3119.
	aifc	Read and write audio files in AIFF or AIFC format.
	argparse	Command-line option and argument parsing library.
	array	Space efficient arrays of uniformly typed numeric values.
	ast	Abstract Syntax Tree classes and manipulation.
	asynchat	Support for asynchronous command/response protocols.
	asyncio	Asynchronous I/O.
	asyncore	A base class for developing asynchronous socket handling services.
	atexit	Register and execute cleanup functions.
	audioop	Manipulate raw audio data.
	b
	base64	RFC 3548: Base16, Base32, Base64 Data Encodings; Base85 and Ascii85
	bdb	Debugger framework.
	binascii	Tools for converting between binary and various ASCII-encoded binary representations.
	binhex	Encode and decode files in binhex4 format.
	bisect	Array bisection algorithms for binary searching.
	builtins	The module that provides the built-in namespace.
	bz2	Interfaces for bzip2 compression and decompression.
	c
	calendar	Functions for working with calendars, including some emulation of the Unix cal program.
	cgi	Helpers for running Python scripts via the Common Gateway Interface.
	cgitb	Configurable traceback handler for CGI scripts.
	chunk	Module to read IFF chunks.
	cmath	Mathematical functions for complex numbers.
	cmd	Build line-oriented command interpreters.
	code	Facilities to implement read-eval-print loops.
	codecs	Encode and decode data and streams.
	codeop	Compile (possibly incomplete) Python code.
	collections	Container datatypes
	collections
	colorsys	Conversion functions between RGB and other color systems.
	compileall	Tools for byte-compiling all Python source files in a directory tree.
	concurrent
	configparser	Configuration file parser.
	contextlib	Utilities for with-statement contexts.
	contextvars	Context Variables
	copy	Shallow and deep copy operations.
	copyreg	Register pickle support functions.
	cProfile
	crypt (Unix)	The crypt() function used to check Unix passwords.
	csv	Write and read tabular data to and from delimited files.
	ctypes	A foreign function library for Python.
	curses (Unix)	An interface to the curses library, providing portable terminal handling.
	curses
	d
	dataclasses	Generate special methods on user-defined classes.
	datetime	Basic date and time types.
	dbm	Interfaces to various Unix "database" formats.
	dbm
	decimal	Implementation of the General Decimal Arithmetic Specification.
	difflib	Helpers for computing differences between objects.
	dis	Disassembler for Python bytecode.
	distutils	Support for building and installing Python modules into an existing Python installation.
	distutils
	doctest	Test pieces of code within docstrings.
	dummy_threading	Drop-in replacement for the threading module.
	e
	email	Package supporting the parsing, manipulating, and generating email messages.
	email
	encodings
	ensurepip	Bootstrapping the "pip" installer into an existing Python installation or virtual environment.
	enum	Implementation of an enumeration class.
	errno	Standard errno system symbols.
	f
	faulthandler	Dump the Python traceback.
	fcntl (Unix)	The fcntl() and ioctl() system calls.
	filecmp	Compare files efficiently.
	fileinput	Loop over standard input or a list of files.
	fnmatch	Unix shell style filename pattern matching.
	formatter	Deprecated: Generic output formatter and device interface.
	fractions	Rational numbers.
	ftplib	FTP protocol client (requires sockets).
	functools	Higher-order functions and operations on callable objects.
	g
	gc	Interface to the cycle-detecting garbage collector.
	getopt	Portable parser for command line options; support both short and long option names.
	getpass	Portable reading of passwords and retrieval of the userid.
	gettext	Multilingual internationalization services.
	glob	Unix shell style pathname pattern expansion.
	grp (Unix)	The group database (getgrnam() and friends).
	gzip	Interfaces for gzip compression and decompression using file objects.
	h
	hashlib	Secure hash and message digest algorithms.
	heapq	Heap queue algorithm (a.k.a. priority queue).
	hmac	Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication (HMAC) implementation
	html	Helpers for manipulating HTML.
	html
	http	HTTP status codes and messages
	http
	i
	imaplib	IMAP4 protocol client (requires sockets).
	imghdr	Determine the type of image contained in a file or byte stream.
	imp	Deprecated: Access the implementation of the import statement.
	importlib	The implementation of the import machinery.
	importlib
	inspect	Extract information and source code from live objects.
	io	Core tools for working with streams.
	ipaddress	IPv4/IPv6 manipulation library.
	itertools	Functions creating iterators for efficient looping.
	j
	json	Encode and decode the JSON format.
	json
	k
	keyword	Test whether a string is a keyword in Python.
	l
	lib2to3	the 2to3 library
	linecache	This module provides random access to individual lines from text files.
	locale	Internationalization services.
	logging	Flexible event logging system for applications.
	logging
	lzma	A Python wrapper for the liblzma compression library.
	m
	macpath	Mac OS 9 path manipulation functions.
	mailbox	Manipulate mailboxes in various formats
	mailcap	Mailcap file handling.
	marshal	Convert Python objects to streams of bytes and back (with different constraints).
	math	Mathematical functions (sin() etc.).
	mimetypes	Mapping of filename extensions to MIME types.
	mmap	Interface to memory-mapped files for Unix and Windows.
	modulefinder	Find modules used by a script.
	msilib (Windows)	Creation of Microsoft Installer files, and CAB files.
	msvcrt (Windows)	Miscellaneous useful routines from the MS VC++ runtime.
	multiprocessing	Process-based parallelism.
	multiprocessing
	n
	netrc	Loading of .netrc files.
	nis (Unix)	Interface to Sun's NIS (Yellow Pages) library.
	nntplib	NNTP protocol client (requires sockets).
	numbers	Numeric abstract base classes (Complex, Real, Integral, etc.).
	o
	operator	Functions corresponding to the standard operators.
	optparse	Deprecated: Command-line option parsing library.
	os	Miscellaneous operating system interfaces.
	os
	ossaudiodev (Linux, FreeBSD)	Access to OSS-compatible audio devices.
	p
	parser	Access parse trees for Python source code.
	pathlib	Object-oriented filesystem paths
	pdb	The Python debugger for interactive interpreters.
	pickle	Convert Python objects to streams of bytes and back.
	pickletools	Contains extensive comments about the pickle protocols and pickle-machine opcodes, as well as some useful functions.
	pipes (Unix)	A Python interface to Unix shell pipelines.
	pkgutil	Utilities for the import system.
	platform	Retrieves as much platform identifying data as possible.
	plistlib	Generate and parse Mac OS X plist files.
	poplib	POP3 protocol client (requires sockets).
	posix (Unix)	The most common POSIX system calls (normally used via module os).
	pprint	Data pretty printer.
	profile	Python source profiler.
	pstats	Statistics object for use with the profiler.
	pty (Linux)	Pseudo-Terminal Handling for Linux.
	pwd (Unix)	The password database (getpwnam() and friends).
	py_compile	Generate byte-code files from Python source files.
	pyclbr	Supports information extraction for a Python class browser.
	pydoc	Documentation generator and online help system.
	q
	queue	A synchronized queue class.
	quopri	Encode and decode files using the MIME quoted-printable encoding.
	r
	random	Generate pseudo-random numbers with various common distributions.
	re	Regular expression operations.
	readline (Unix)	GNU readline support for Python.
	reprlib	Alternate repr() implementation with size limits.
	resource (Unix)	An interface to provide resource usage information on the current process.
	rlcompleter	Python identifier completion, suitable for the GNU readline library.
	runpy	Locate and run Python modules without importing them first.
	s
	sched	General purpose event scheduler.
	secrets	Generate secure random numbers for managing secrets.
	select	Wait for I/O completion on multiple streams.
	selectors	High-level I/O multiplexing.
	shelve	Python object persistence.
	shlex	Simple lexical analysis for Unix shell-like languages.
	shutil	High-level file operations, including copying.
	signal	Set handlers for asynchronous events.
	site	Module responsible for site-specific configuration.
	smtpd	A SMTP server implementation in Python.
	smtplib	SMTP protocol client (requires sockets).
	sndhdr	Determine type of a sound file.
	socket	Low-level networking interface.
	socketserver	A framework for network servers.
	spwd (Unix)	The shadow password database (getspnam() and friends).
	sqlite3	A DB-API 2.0 implementation using SQLite 3.x.
	ssl	TLS/SSL wrapper for socket objects
	stat	Utilities for interpreting the results of os.stat(), os.lstat() and os.fstat().
	statistics	mathematical statistics functions
	string	Common string operations.
	stringprep	String preparation, as per RFC 3453
	struct	Interpret bytes as packed binary data.
	subprocess	Subprocess management.
	sunau	Provide an interface to the Sun AU sound format.
	symbol	Constants representing internal nodes of the parse tree.
	symtable	Interface to the compiler's internal symbol tables.
	sys	Access system-specific parameters and functions.
	sysconfig	Python's configuration information
	syslog (Unix)	An interface to the Unix syslog library routines.
	t
	tabnanny	Tool for detecting white space related problems in Python source files in a directory tree.
	tarfile	Read and write tar-format archive files.
	telnetlib	Telnet client class.
	tempfile	Generate temporary files and directories.
	termios (Unix)	POSIX style tty control.
	test	Regression tests package containing the testing suite for Python.
	test
	textwrap	Text wrapping and filling
	threading	Thread-based parallelism.
	time	Time access and conversions.
	timeit	Measure the execution time of small code snippets.
	tkinter	Interface to Tcl/Tk for graphical user interfaces
	tkinter
	token	Constants representing terminal nodes of the parse tree.
	tokenize	Lexical scanner for Python source code.
	trace	Trace or track Python statement execution.
	traceback	Print or retrieve a stack traceback.
	tracemalloc	Trace memory allocations.
	tty (Unix)	Utility functions that perform common terminal control operations.
	turtle	An educational framework for simple graphics applications
	turtledemo	A viewer for example turtle scripts
	types	Names for built-in types.
	typing	Support for type hints (see PEP 484).
	u
	unicodedata	Access the Unicode Database.
	unittest	Unit testing framework for Python.
	unittest
	urllib
	urllib
	uu	Encode and decode files in uuencode format.
	uuid	UUID objects (universally unique identifiers) according to RFC 4122
	v
	venv	Creation of virtual environments.
	w
	warnings	Issue warning messages and control their disposition.
	wave	Provide an interface to the WAV sound format.
	weakref	Support for weak references and weak dictionaries.
	webbrowser	Easy-to-use controller for Web browsers.
	winreg (Windows)	Routines and objects for manipulating the Windows registry.
	winsound (Windows)	Access to the sound-playing machinery for Windows.
	wsgiref	WSGI Utilities and Reference Implementation.
	wsgiref
	x
	xdrlib	Encoders and decoders for the External Data Representation (XDR).
	xml	Package containing XML processing modules
	xml
	xmlrpc
	z
	zipapp	Manage executable Python zip archives
	zipfile	Read and write ZIP-format archive files.
	zipimport	support for importing Python modules from ZIP archives.
	zlib	Low-level interface to compression and decompression routines compatible with gzip.