PythonLibraryReference/OptionalOperatingSystemServices¶
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7.1 signal – Set handlers for asynchronous events
7.1.1 Example
7.2 socket – Low-level networking interface
7.2.1 Socket Objects 7.2.2 SSL Objects 7.2.3 Example
7.3 select – Waiting for I/O completion
7.3.1 Polling Objects
7.4 thread – Multiple threads of control
7.5 threading – Higher-level threading interface
7.5.1 Lock Objects 7.5.2 RLock Objects 7.5.3 Condition Objects 7.5.4 Semaphore Objects 7.5.5 Event Objects 7.5.6 Thread Objects 7.5.7 Timer Objects
7.6 dummy_thread – Drop-in replacement for the thread module
7.7 dummy_threading – Drop-in replacement for the threading module
7.8 Queue – A synchronized queue class
7.8.1 Queue Objects
7.9 mmap – Memory-mapped file support
7.10 anydbm – Generic access to DBM-style databases
7.11 dbhash – DBM-style interface to the BSD database library
7.11.1 Database Objects
7.12 whichdb – Guess which DBM module created a database
7.13 bsddb – Interface to Berkeley DB library
7.13.1 Hash, BTree and Record Objects
7.14 dumbdbm – Portable DBM implementation
7.14.1 Dumbdbm Objects
7.15 zlib – Compression compatible with gzip
7.16 gzip – Support for gzip files
7.17 bz2 – Compression compatible with bzip2
7.17.1 (De)compression of files 7.17.2 Sequential (de)compression 7.17.3 One-shot (de)compression
7.18 zipfile – Work with ZIP archives
7.18.1 ZipFile Objects 7.18.2 PyZipFile Objects 7.18.3 ZipInfo Objects
7.19 tarfile – Read and write tar archive files
7.19.1 TarFile Objects 7.19.2 TarInfo Objects 7.19.3 Examples
7.20 readline – GNU readline interface
7.20.1 Example
7.21 rlcompleter – Completion function for GNU readline
7.21.1 Completer Objects