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Here's a quick listing of modules that are currently undocumented, but that
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should be documented. Feel free to contribute documentation for them! (Send
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via email to docs@python.org.)
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The idea and original contents for this chapter were taken from a posting by
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Fredrik Lundh; the specific contents of this chapter have been substantially
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Miscellaneous useful utilities
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Some of these are very old and/or not very robust; marked with "hmm."
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--- Import hook support (for :mod:`rexec`; may become obsolete).
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.. warning:: The :mod:`ihooks` module has been removed in Python 3.0.
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Platform specific modules
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These modules are used to implement the :mod:`os.path` module, and are not
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documented beyond this mention. There's little need to document these.
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--- Implementation of :mod:`os.path` on Win32, Win64, WinCE, and OS/2 platforms.
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--- Implementation of :mod:`os.path` on POSIX.
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--- Backwards compatibility module for systems which still use the Berkeley DB
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1.85 module. It is normally only available on certain BSD Unix-based systems.
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It should never be used directly.
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--- Platform-independent API for playing audio data.
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.. warning:: The :mod:`audiodev` module has been removed in 3.0.
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--- Play audio data on the Linux audio device. Replaced in Python 2.3 by the
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:mod:`ossaudiodev` module.
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.. warning:: The :mod:`linuxaudiodev` module has been removed in Python 3.0.
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--- Interpret Sun audio headers (may become obsolete or a tool/demo).
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.. warning:: The :mod:`sunaudio` module has been removed in Python 3.0.
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--- Convert "arbitrary" sound files to AIFF files; should probably become a tool
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or demo. Requires the external program :program:`sox`.
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.. warning:: The :mod:`toaiff` module has been removed in 3.0.
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Undocumented Mac OS modules
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:mod:`applesingle` --- AppleSingle decoder
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.. module:: applesingle
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:synopsis: Rudimentary decoder for AppleSingle format files.
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:mod:`buildtools` --- Helper module for BuildApplet and Friends
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.. module:: buildtools
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:synopsis: Helper module for BuildApplet, BuildApplication and macfreeze.
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:mod:`cfmfile` --- Code Fragment Resource module
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:synopsis: Code Fragment Resource module.
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:mod:`cfmfile` is a module that understands Code Fragments and the accompanying
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"cfrg" resources. It can parse them and merge them, and is used by
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BuildApplication to combine all plugin modules to a single executable.
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:mod:`icopen` --- Internet Config replacement for :meth:`open`
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:synopsis: Internet Config replacement for open().
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Importing :mod:`icopen` will replace the builtin :meth:`open` with a version
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that uses Internet Config to set file type and creator for new files.
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:mod:`macerrors` --- Mac OS Errors
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:synopsis: Constant definitions for many Mac OS error codes.
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:mod:`macerrors` contains constant definitions for many Mac OS error codes.
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:mod:`macresource` --- Locate script resources
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:synopsis: Locate script resources.
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:mod:`macresource` helps scripts finding their resources, such as dialogs and
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menus, without requiring special case code for when the script is run under
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MacPython, as a MacPython applet or under OSX Python.
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:mod:`Nav` --- NavServices calls
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:synopsis: Interface to Navigation Services.
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A low-level interface to Navigation Services.
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:mod:`PixMapWrapper` --- Wrapper for PixMap objects
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:synopsis: Wrapper for PixMap objects.
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:mod:`PixMapWrapper` wraps a PixMap object with a Python object that allows
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access to the fields by name. It also has methods to convert to and from
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:mod:`videoreader` --- Read QuickTime movies
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:synopsis: Read QuickTime movies frame by frame for further processing.
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:mod:`videoreader` reads and decodes QuickTime movies and passes a stream of
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:mod:`W` --- Widgets built on :mod:`FrameWork`
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:synopsis: Widgets for the Mac, built on top of FrameWork.
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The :mod:`W` widgets are used extensively in the :program:`IDE`.
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.. _obsolete-modules:
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These modules are not normally available for import; additional work must be
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done to make them available.
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These extension modules written in C are not built by default. Under Unix, these
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must be enabled by uncommenting the appropriate lines in :file:`Modules/Setup`
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in the build tree and either rebuilding Python if the modules are statically
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linked, or building and installing the shared object if using dynamically-loaded
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.. (lib-old is empty as of Python 2.5)
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Those which are written in Python will be installed into the directory
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\file{lib-old/} installed as part of the standard library. To use
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these, the directory must be added to \code{sys.path}, possibly using
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--- Measure time intervals to high resolution (use :func:`time.clock` instead).
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.. warning:: The :mod:`timing` module has been removed in Python 3.0.
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--- Interface to the SGI compression library.
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--- Interface to the "simple video" board on SGI Indigo (obsolete hardware).
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.. warning:: The :mod:`sv` module has been removed in Python 3.0.