PythonLibraryReference/GenericOperatingSystemServices
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6.1 os -- Miscellaneous operating system interfaces
6.1.1 Process Parameters 6.1.2 File Object Creation 6.1.3 File Descriptor Operations 6.1.4 Files and Directories 6.1.5 Process Management 6.1.6 Miscellaneous System Information
6.2 os.path -- Common pathname manipulations
6.3 dircache -- Cached directory listings
6.4 stat -- Interpreting stat() results
6.5 statcache -- An optimization of os.stat()
6.6 statvfs -- Constants used with os.statvfs()
6.7 filecmp -- File and Directory Comparisons
6.7.1 The dircmp class
6.8 popen2 -- Subprocesses with accessible I/O streams
6.8.1 Popen3 and Popen4 Objects 6.8.2 Flow Control Issues
6.9 datetime -- Basic date and time types
6.9.1 Available Types 6.9.2 timedelta Objects 6.9.3 date Objects 6.9.4 datetime Objects 6.9.5 time Objects 6.9.6 tzinfo Objects 6.9.7 strftime() Behavior
6.10 time -- Time access and conversions
6.11 sched -- Event scheduler
6.11.1 Scheduler Objects
6.12 mutex -- Mutual exclusion support
6.12.1 Mutex Objects
6.13 getpass -- Portable password input
6.14 curses -- Terminal handling for character-cell displays
6.14.1 Functions 6.14.2 Window Objects 6.14.3 Constants
6.15 curses.textpad -- Text input widget for curses programs
6.15.1 Textbox objects
6.16 curses.wrapper -- Terminal handler for curses programs
6.17 curses.ascii -- Utilities for ASCII characters
6.18 curses.panel -- A panel stack extension for curses.
6.18.1 Functions 6.18.2 Panel Objects
6.19 getopt -- Parser for command line options
6.20 optparse -- Powerful parser for command line options.
6.20.1 Philosophy 6.20.2 Basic Usage 6.20.3 Advanced Usage 6.20.4 Callback Options 6.20.5 Extending optparse
6.21 tempfile -- Generate temporary files and directories
6.22 errno -- Standard errno system symbols
6.23 glob -- Unix style pathname pattern expansion
6.24 fnmatch -- Unix filename pattern matching
6.25 shutil -- High-level file operations 6.25.1 Example
6.26 locale -- Internationalization services
6.26.1 Background, details, hints, tips and caveats 6.26.2 For extension writers and programs that embed Python 6.26.3 Access to message catalogs
6.27 gettext -- Multilingual internationalization services
6.27.1 GNU gettext API 6.27.2 Class-based API 6.27.3 Internationalizing your programs and modules 6.27.4 Acknowledgements
6.28 logging -- Logging facility for Python
6.28.1 Logger Objects 6.28.2 Handler Objects 6.28.3 Formatter Objects 6.28.4 Filter Objects 6.28.5 LogRecord Objects 6.28.6 Thread Safety 6.28.7 Configuration 6.28.8 Using the logging package