Python Library Reference / Generic Operating System Services¶

Python Library Reference

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

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