Source code: Lib/importlib/__init__.py Introduction: The purpose of the importlib package is three-fold. One is to provide the implementation of the import statement (and thus, by extension, the__i...

Source code: Lib/curses The curses module provides an interface to the curses library, the de-facto standard for portable advanced terminal handling. While curses is most widely used in the Unix en...

Source code: Lib/codecs.py This module defines base classes for standard Python codecs (encoders and decoders) and provides access to the internal Python codec registry, which manages the codec and...

Source code: Lib/contextlib.py This module provides utilities for common tasks involving the with statement. For more information see also Context Manager Types and With Statement Context Managers....

Author, Raymond Hettinger,. This article explains the new features in Python 3.2 as compared to 3.1. Python 3.2 was released on February 20, 2011. It focuses on a few highlights and gives a few exa...

This section aims to give a quick fly-by on the various type methods you can implement and what they do. Here is the definition of PyTypeObject, with some fields only used in debug builds omitted: ...

Source code: Lib/zipfile/ The ZIP file format is a common archive and compression standard. This module provides tools to create, read, write, append, and list a ZIP file. Any advanced use of this ...

Source code: Lib/io.py Overview: The io module provides Python’s main facilities for dealing with various types of I/O. There are three main types of I/O: text I/O, binary I/O and raw I/O. These ar...

Author, A.M. Kuchling and Moshe Zadka,. Introduction: A new release of Python, version 2.0, was released on October 16, 2000. This article covers the exciting new features in 2.0, highlights some o...

The functions described in this chapter will let you handle and raise Python exceptions. It is important to understand some of the basics of Python exception handling. It works somewhat like the PO...