Superseded Modules

The modules described in this chapter are deprecated and only kept for backwards compatibility. They have been superseded by other modules.

• aifc — Read and write AIFF and AIFC files
  • open()
  • aifc.getnchannels()
  • aifc.getsampwidth()
  • aifc.getframerate()
  • aifc.getnframes()
  • aifc.getcomptype()
  • aifc.getcompname()
  • aifc.getparams()
  • aifc.getmarkers()
  • aifc.getmark()
  • aifc.readframes()
  • aifc.rewind()
  • aifc.setpos()
  • aifc.tell()
  • aifc.close()
  • aifc.aiff()
  • aifc.aifc()
  • aifc.setnchannels()
  • aifc.setsampwidth()
  • aifc.setframerate()
  • aifc.setnframes()
  • aifc.setcomptype()
  • aifc.setparams()
  • aifc.setmark()
  • aifc.writeframes()
  • aifc.writeframesraw()
• asynchat — Asynchronous socket command/response handler
  • async_chat
    • async_chat.ac_in_buffer_size
    • async_chat.ac_out_buffer_size
    • async_chat.close_when_done()
    • async_chat.collect_incoming_data()
    • async_chat.discard_buffers()
    • async_chat.found_terminator()
    • async_chat.get_terminator()
    • async_chat.push()
    • async_chat.push_with_producer()
    • async_chat.set_terminator()
  • asynchat Example
• asyncore — Asynchronous socket handler
  • loop()
  • dispatcher
    • dispatcher.handle_read()
    • dispatcher.handle_write()
    • dispatcher.handle_expt()
    • dispatcher.handle_connect()
    • dispatcher.handle_close()
    • dispatcher.handle_error()
    • dispatcher.handle_accept()
    • dispatcher.handle_accepted()
    • dispatcher.readable()
    • dispatcher.writable()
    • dispatcher.create_socket()
    • dispatcher.connect()
    • dispatcher.send()
    • dispatcher.recv()
    • dispatcher.listen()
    • dispatcher.bind()
    • dispatcher.accept()
    • dispatcher.close()
  • dispatcher_with_send
  • file_dispatcher
  • file_wrapper
  • asyncore Example basic HTTP client
  • asyncore Example basic echo server
• audioop — Manipulate raw audio data
  • error
  • add()
  • adpcm2lin()
  • alaw2lin()
  • avg()
  • avgpp()
  • bias()
  • byteswap()
  • cross()
  • findfactor()
  • findfit()
  • findmax()
  • getsample()
  • lin2adpcm()
  • lin2alaw()
  • lin2lin()
  • lin2ulaw()
  • max()
  • maxpp()
  • minmax()
  • mul()
  • ratecv()
  • reverse()
  • rms()
  • tomono()
  • tostereo()
  • ulaw2lin()
• cgi — Common Gateway Interface support
  • Introduction
  • Using the cgi module
  • Higher Level Interface
    • FieldStorage.getfirst()
    • FieldStorage.getlist()
  • Functions
    • parse()
    • parse_multipart()
    • parse_header()
    • test()
    • print_environ()
    • print_form()
    • print_directory()
    • print_environ_usage()
  • Caring about security
  • Installing your CGI script on a Unix system
  • Testing your CGI script
  • Debugging CGI scripts
  • Common problems and solutions
• cgitb — Traceback manager for CGI scripts
  • enable()
  • text()
  • html()
  • handler()
• chunk — Read IFF chunked data
  • Chunk
    • Chunk.getname()
    • Chunk.getsize()
    • Chunk.close()
    • Chunk.isatty()
    • Chunk.seek()
    • Chunk.tell()
    • Chunk.read()
    • Chunk.skip()
• crypt — Function to check Unix passwords
  • Hashing Methods
    • METHOD_SHA512
    • METHOD_SHA256
    • METHOD_BLOWFISH
    • METHOD_MD5
    • METHOD_CRYPT
  • Module Attributes
    • methods
  • Module Functions
    • crypt()
    • mksalt()
  • Examples
• imghdr — Determine the type of an image
  • what()
  • tests
• imp — Access the import internals
  • get_magic()
  • get_suffixes()
  • find_module()
  • load_module()
  • new_module()
  • reload()
  • cache_from_source()
  • source_from_cache()
  • get_tag()
  • lock_held()
  • acquire_lock()
  • release_lock()
  • PY_SOURCE
  • PY_COMPILED
  • C_EXTENSION
  • PKG_DIRECTORY
  • C_BUILTIN
  • PY_FROZEN
  • NullImporter
    • NullImporter.find_module()
  • Examples
• mailcap — Mailcap file handling
  • findmatch()
  • getcaps()
• msilib — Read and write Microsoft Installer files
  • FCICreate()
  • UuidCreate()
  • OpenDatabase()
  • CreateRecord()
  • init_database()
  • add_data()
  • Binary
  • add_tables()
  • add_stream()
  • gen_uuid()
  • Database Objects
    • Database.OpenView()
    • Database.Commit()
    • Database.GetSummaryInformation()
    • Database.Close()
  • View Objects
    • View.Execute()
    • View.GetColumnInfo()
    • View.Fetch()
    • View.Modify()
    • View.Close()
  • Summary Information Objects
    • SummaryInformation.GetProperty()
    • SummaryInformation.GetPropertyCount()
    • SummaryInformation.SetProperty()
    • SummaryInformation.Persist()
  • Record Objects
    • Record.GetFieldCount()
    • Record.GetInteger()
    • Record.GetString()
    • Record.SetString()
    • Record.SetStream()
    • Record.SetInteger()
    • Record.ClearData()
  • Errors
  • CAB Objects
    • CAB
      • CAB.append()
      • CAB.commit()
  • Directory Objects
    • Directory
      • Directory.start_component()
      • Directory.add_file()
      • Directory.glob()
      • Directory.remove_pyc()
  • Features
    • Feature
      • Feature.set_current()
  • GUI classes
    • Control
      • Control.event()
      • Control.mapping()
      • Control.condition()
    • RadioButtonGroup
      • RadioButtonGroup.add()
    • Dialog
      • Dialog.control()
      • Dialog.text()
      • Dialog.bitmap()
      • Dialog.line()
      • Dialog.pushbutton()
      • Dialog.radiogroup()
      • Dialog.checkbox()
  • Precomputed tables
    • schema
    • sequence
    • text
• nis — Interface to Sun’s NIS (Yellow Pages)
  • match()
  • cat()
  • maps()
  • get_default_domain()
  • error
• nntplib — NNTP protocol client
  • NNTP
  • NNTP_SSL
  • NNTPError
    • NNTPError.response
  • NNTPReplyError
  • NNTPTemporaryError
  • NNTPPermanentError
  • NNTPProtocolError
  • NNTPDataError
  • NNTP Objects
    • Attributes
      • NNTP.nntp_version
      • NNTP.nntp_implementation
    • Methods
      • NNTP.quit()
      • NNTP.getwelcome()
      • NNTP.getcapabilities()
      • NNTP.login()
      • NNTP.starttls()
      • NNTP.newgroups()
      • NNTP.newnews()
      • NNTP.list()
      • NNTP.descriptions()
      • NNTP.description()
      • NNTP.group()
      • NNTP.over()
      • NNTP.help()
      • NNTP.stat()
      • NNTP.next()
      • NNTP.last()
      • NNTP.article()
      • NNTP.head()
      • NNTP.body()
      • NNTP.post()
      • NNTP.ihave()
      • NNTP.date()
      • NNTP.slave()
      • NNTP.set_debuglevel()
      • NNTP.xhdr()
      • NNTP.xover()
  • Utility functions
    • decode_header()
• optparse — Parser for command line options
  • Background
    • Terminology
    • What are options for?
    • What are positional arguments for?
  • Tutorial
    • Understanding option actions
    • The store action
    • Handling boolean (flag) options
    • Other actions
    • Default values
    • Generating help
      • Grouping Options
        • OptionGroup
        • OptionParser.get_option_group()
    • Printing a version string
      • OptionParser.print_version()
      • OptionParser.get_version()
    • How optparse handles errors
    • Putting it all together
  • Reference Guide
    • Creating the parser
      • OptionParser
    • Populating the parser
    • Defining options
      • OptionParser.add_option()
    • Option attributes
      • Option.action
      • Option.type
      • Option.dest
      • Option.default
      • Option.nargs
      • Option.const
      • Option.choices
      • Option.callback
      • Option.callback_args
      • Option.callback_kwargs
      • Option.help
      • Option.metavar
    • Standard option actions
    • Standard option types
    • Parsing arguments
    • Querying and manipulating your option parser
      • OptionParser.disable_interspersed_args()
      • OptionParser.enable_interspersed_args()
      • OptionParser.get_option()
      • OptionParser.has_option()
      • OptionParser.remove_option()
    • Conflicts between options
    • Cleanup
    • Other methods
      • OptionParser.set_usage()
      • OptionParser.print_usage()
      • OptionParser.get_usage()
      • OptionParser.set_defaults()
  • Option Callbacks
    • Defining a callback option
    • How callbacks are called
    • Raising errors in a callback
    • Callback example 1: trivial callback
    • Callback example 2: check option order
    • Callback example 3: check option order (generalized)
    • Callback example 4: check arbitrary condition
    • Callback example 5: fixed arguments
    • Callback example 6: variable arguments
  • Extending optparse
    • Adding new types
      • Option.TYPES
      • Option.TYPE_CHECKER
    • Adding new actions
      • Option.ACTIONS
      • Option.STORE_ACTIONS
      • Option.TYPED_ACTIONS
      • Option.ALWAYS_TYPED_ACTIONS
• ossaudiodev — Access to OSS-compatible audio devices
  • OSSAudioError
  • open()
  • openmixer()
  • Audio Device Objects
    • oss_audio_device.close()
    • oss_audio_device.fileno()
    • oss_audio_device.read()
    • oss_audio_device.write()
    • oss_audio_device.writeall()
    • oss_audio_device.nonblock()
    • oss_audio_device.getfmts()
    • oss_audio_device.setfmt()
    • oss_audio_device.channels()
    • oss_audio_device.speed()
    • oss_audio_device.sync()
    • oss_audio_device.reset()
    • oss_audio_device.post()
    • oss_audio_device.setparameters()
    • oss_audio_device.bufsize()
    • oss_audio_device.obufcount()
    • oss_audio_device.obuffree()
    • oss_audio_device.closed
    • oss_audio_device.name
    • oss_audio_device.mode
  • Mixer Device Objects
    • oss_mixer_device.close()
    • oss_mixer_device.fileno()
    • oss_mixer_device.controls()
    • oss_mixer_device.stereocontrols()
    • oss_mixer_device.reccontrols()
    • oss_mixer_device.get()
    • oss_mixer_device.set()
    • oss_mixer_device.get_recsrc()
    • oss_mixer_device.set_recsrc()
• pipes — Interface to shell pipelines
  • Template
  • Template Objects
    • Template.reset()
    • Template.clone()
    • Template.debug()
    • Template.append()
    • Template.prepend()
    • Template.open()
    • Template.copy()
• smtpd — SMTP Server
  • SMTPServer Objects
    • SMTPServer
      • SMTPServer.process_message()
      • SMTPServer.channel_class
  • DebuggingServer Objects
    • DebuggingServer
  • PureProxy Objects
    • PureProxy
  • SMTPChannel Objects
    • SMTPChannel
      • SMTPChannel.smtp_server
      • SMTPChannel.conn
      • SMTPChannel.addr
      • SMTPChannel.received_lines
      • SMTPChannel.smtp_state
      • SMTPChannel.seen_greeting
      • SMTPChannel.mailfrom
      • SMTPChannel.rcpttos
      • SMTPChannel.received_data
      • SMTPChannel.fqdn
      • SMTPChannel.peer
• sndhdr — Determine type of sound file
  • what()
  • whathdr()
  • tests
• spwd — The shadow password database
  • getspnam()
  • getspall()
• sunau — Read and write Sun AU files
  • open()
  • Error
  • AUDIO_FILE_MAGIC
  • AUDIO_FILE_ENCODING_MULAW_8
  • AUDIO_FILE_ENCODING_LINEAR_8
  • AUDIO_FILE_ENCODING_LINEAR_16
  • AUDIO_FILE_ENCODING_LINEAR_24
  • AUDIO_FILE_ENCODING_LINEAR_32
  • AUDIO_FILE_ENCODING_ALAW_8
  • AUDIO_FILE_ENCODING_FLOAT
  • AUDIO_FILE_ENCODING_DOUBLE
  • AUDIO_FILE_ENCODING_ADPCM_G721
  • AUDIO_FILE_ENCODING_ADPCM_G722
  • AUDIO_FILE_ENCODING_ADPCM_G723_3
  • AUDIO_FILE_ENCODING_ADPCM_G723_5
  • AU_read Objects
    • AU_read.close()
    • AU_read.getnchannels()
    • AU_read.getsampwidth()
    • AU_read.getframerate()
    • AU_read.getnframes()
    • AU_read.getcomptype()
    • AU_read.getcompname()
    • AU_read.getparams()
    • AU_read.readframes()
    • AU_read.rewind()
    • AU_read.setpos()
    • AU_read.tell()
    • AU_read.getmarkers()
    • AU_read.getmark()
  • AU_write Objects
    • AU_write.setnchannels()
    • AU_write.setsampwidth()
    • AU_write.setframerate()
    • AU_write.setnframes()
    • AU_write.setcomptype()
    • AU_write.setparams()
    • AU_write.tell()
    • AU_write.writeframesraw()
    • AU_write.writeframes()
    • AU_write.close()
• telnetlib — Telnet client
  • Telnet
  • Telnet Objects
    • Telnet.read_until()
    • Telnet.read_all()
    • Telnet.read_some()
    • Telnet.read_very_eager()
    • Telnet.read_eager()
    • Telnet.read_lazy()
    • Telnet.read_very_lazy()
    • Telnet.read_sb_data()
    • Telnet.open()
    • Telnet.msg()
    • Telnet.set_debuglevel()
    • Telnet.close()
    • Telnet.get_socket()
    • Telnet.fileno()
    • Telnet.write()
    • Telnet.interact()
    • Telnet.mt_interact()
    • Telnet.expect()
    • Telnet.set_option_negotiation_callback()
  • Telnet Example
• uu — Encode and decode uuencode files
  • encode()
  • decode()
  • Error
• xdrlib — Encode and decode XDR data
  • Packer
  • Unpacker
  • Packer Objects
    • Packer.get_buffer()
    • Packer.reset()
    • Packer.pack_float()
    • Packer.pack_double()
    • Packer.pack_fstring()
    • Packer.pack_fopaque()
    • Packer.pack_string()
    • Packer.pack_opaque()
    • Packer.pack_bytes()
    • Packer.pack_list()
    • Packer.pack_farray()
    • Packer.pack_array()
  • Unpacker Objects
    • Unpacker.reset()
    • Unpacker.get_position()
    • Unpacker.set_position()
    • Unpacker.get_buffer()
    • Unpacker.done()
    • Unpacker.unpack_float()
    • Unpacker.unpack_double()
    • Unpacker.unpack_fstring()
    • Unpacker.unpack_fopaque()
    • Unpacker.unpack_string()
    • Unpacker.unpack_opaque()
    • Unpacker.unpack_bytes()
    • Unpacker.unpack_list()
    • Unpacker.unpack_farray()
    • Unpacker.unpack_array()
  • Exceptions
    • Error
    • ConversionError