Doc/libpython.tex

   1 \chapter{Python Services}
   2 \label{python}
   3
   4 The modules described in this chapter provide a wide range of services
   5 related to the Python interpreter and its interaction with its
   6 environment.  Here's an overview:
   7
   8 \begin{description}
   9
  10 \item[sys]
  11 --- Access system specific parameters and functions.
  12
  13 \item[types]
  14 --- Names for all built-in types.
  15
  16 \item[UserDict]
  17 --- Class wrapper for dictionary objects.
  18
  19 \item[UserList]
  20 --- Class wrapper for list objects.
  21
  22 \item[operator]
  23 --- All Python's standard operators as built-in functions.
  24
  25 \item[traceback]
  26 --- Print or retrieve a stack traceback.
  27
  28 \item[pickle]
  29 --- Convert Python objects to streams of bytes and back.
  30
  31 \item[cPickle]
  32 --- Faster version of \module{pickle}, but not subclassable.
  33
  34 \item[copy_reg]
  35 --- Register \module{pickle} support functions.
  36
  37 \item[shelve]
  38 --- Python object persistency.
  39
  40 \item[copy]
  41 --- Shallow and deep copy operations.
  42
  43 \item[marshal]
  44 --- Convert Python objects to streams of bytes and back (with
  45 different constraints).
  46
  47 \item[imp]
  48 --- Access the implementation of the \keyword{import} statement.
  49
  50 \item[parser]
  51 --- Retrieve and submit parse trees from and to the runtime support
  52 environment.
  53
  54 \item[symbol]
  55 --- Constants representing internal nodes of the parse tree.
  56
  57 \item[token]
  58 --- Constants representing terminal nodes of the parse tree.
  59
  60 \item[keyword]
  61 --- Test whether a string is a keyword in the Python language.
  62
  63 \item[code]
  64 --- Code object services.
  65
  66 \item[pprint]
  67 --- Data pretty printer.
  68
  69 \item[dis]
  70 --- Disassembler.
  71
  72 \item[site]
  73 --- A standard way to reference site-specific modules.
  74
  75 \item[user]
  76 --- A standard way to reference user-specific modules.
  77
  78 \item[__builtin__]
  79 --- The set of built-in functions.
  80
  81 \item[__main__]
  82 --- The environment where the top-level script is run.
  83
  84 \end{description}