Python Modules

a) Packages unter Python 3.6

 

 

__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, event loop, coroutines and tasks.

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

 

 

 

d

 

 

datetime

Basic date and time types.

 

dbm

Interfaces to various Unix "database" formats.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

fpectl (Unix)

Provide control for floating point exception handling.

 

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.

 

http

HTTP status codes and messages

 

 

 

 

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.

 

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.

 

 

 

 

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.

 

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.

 

 

 

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

 

 

 

x

 

 

xdrlib

Encoders and decoders for the External Data Representation (XDR).

 

xml

Package containing XML processing modules

 

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.

 

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b) Packages unter Python 2.7

 

Audio_mac           _io                 fileinput           pydoc_data

BaseHTTPServer      _json               findertools         pyexpat

Bastion             _locale             fnmatch             quopri

CGIHTTPServer       _lsprof             formatter           random

Canvas              _markerlib          fpformat            re

Carbon              _multibytecodec     fractions           readline

CodeWarrior         _multiprocessing    ftplib              repr

ColorPicker         _osx_support        functools           resource

ConfigParser        _pyio               future_builtins     rexec

Cookie              _random             gc                  rfc822

Dialog              _scproxy            genericpath         rlcompleter

DocXMLRPCServer     _socket             gensuitemodule      robotparser

EasyDialogs         _sqlite3            gestalt             runpy

Explorer            _sre                getopt              sched

FileDialog          _ssl                getpass             select

Finder              _strptime           gettext             sets

FixTk               _struct             glob                setuptools

FrameWork           _symtable           grp                 sgmllib

HTMLParser          _sysconfigdata      gzip                sha

IN                  _testcapi           hashlib             shelve

MacOS               _threading_local    heapq               shlex

MimeWriter          _tkinter            hmac                shutil

MiniAEFrame         _warnings           hotshot             signal

Nav                 _weakref            htmlentitydefs      site

Netscape            _weakrefset         htmllib             smtpd

OSATerminology      abc                 httplib             smtplib

PixMapWrapper       aepack              ic                  sndhdr

Queue               aetools             icglue              socket

ScrolledText        aetypes             icopen              sqlite3

SimpleDialog        aifc                idlelib             sre

SimpleHTTPServer    antigravity         ihooks              sre_compile

SimpleXMLRPCServer  anydbm              imaplib             sre_constants

SocketServer        applesingle         imghdr              sre_parse

StdSuites           appletrawmain       imp                 ssl

StringIO            appletrunner        importlib           stat

SystemEvents        argparse            imputil             statvfs

Terminal            argvemulator        inspect             string

Tix                 array               io                  stringold

Tkconstants         ast                 itertools           stringprep

Tkdnd               asynchat            json                strop

Tkinter             asyncore            keyword             struct

UserDict            atexit              lib2to3             subprocess

UserList            audiodev            linecache           sunau

UserString          audioop             locale              sunaudio

_AE                 autoGIL             logging             symbol

_AH                 base64              macerrors           symtable

_App                bdb                 macostools          sys

_CF                 bgenlocations       macpath             sysconfig

_CG                 binascii            macresource         syslog

_CarbonEvt          binhex              macurl2path         tabnanny

_Cm                 bisect              mailbox             tarfile

_Ctl                bsddb               mailcap             telnetlib

_Dlg                buildtools          markupbase          tempfile

_Drag               bundlebuilder       marshal             terminalcommand

_Evt                bz2                 math                termios

_File               cPickle             md5                 test

_Fm                 cProfile            mhlib               textwrap

_Folder             cStringIO           mimetools           this

_Help               calendar            mimetypes           thread

_IBCarbon           cfmfile             mimify              threading

_Icn                cgi                 mmap                time

_LWPCookieJar       cgitb               modulefinder        timeit

_Launch             chunk               multifile           tkColorChooser

_List               cmath               multiprocessing     tkCommonDialog

_Menu               cmd                 mutex               tkFileDialog

_Mlte               code                netrc               tkFont

_MozillaCookieJar   codecs              new                 tkMessageBox

_OSA                codeop              nis                 tkSimpleDialog

_Qd                 collections         nntplib             toaiff

_Qdoffs             colorsys            ntpath              token

_Qt                 commands            nturl2path          tokenize

_Res                compileall          numbers             trace

_Scrap              compiler            opcode              traceback

_Snd                contextlib          operator            ttk

_TE                 cookielib           optparse            tty

_Win                copy                os                  turtle

__builtin__         copy_reg            os2emxpath          types

__future__          crypt               parser              unicodedata

_abcoll             csv                 pdb                 unittest

_ast                ctypes              pickle              urllib

_bisect             curses              pickletools         urllib2

_bsddb              datetime            pimp                urlparse

_builtinSuites      dbhash              pip                 user

_codecs             dbm                 pipes               uu

_codecs_cn          decimal             pkg_resources       uuid

_codecs_hk          difflib             pkgutil             videoreader

_codecs_iso2022     dircache            platform            warnings

_codecs_jp          dis                 plistlib            wave

_codecs_kr          distutils           popen2              weakref

_codecs_tw          doctest             poplib              webbrowser

_collections        dumbdbm             posix               whichdb

_csv                dummy_thread        posixfile           wsgiref

_ctypes             dummy_threading     posixpath           xdrlib

_ctypes_test        easy_install        pprint              xml

_curses             email               profile             xmllib

_curses_panel       encodings           pstats              xmlrpclib

_elementtree        ensurepip           pty                 xxsubtype

_functools          errno               pwd                 zipfile

_hashlib            exceptions          py_compile          zipimport

_heapq              fcntl               pyclbr              zlib

_hotshot            filecmp             pydoc