Contents: Library and Extension FAQ- General Library Questions- How do I find a module or application to perform task X?, Where is the math.py (socket.py, regex.py, etc.) source file?, How do I mak...

Source code: Lib/xmlrpc/server.py The xmlrpc.server module provides a basic server framework for XML-RPC servers written in Python. Servers can either be free standing, using SimpleXMLRPCServer, or...

Source code: Lib/linecache.py The linecache module allows one to get any line from a Python source file, while attempting to optimize internally, using a cache, the common case where many lines are...

Contents: Design and History FAQ- Why does Python use indentation for grouping of statements?, Why am I getting strange results with simple arithmetic operations?, Why are floating-point calculatio...

Source code: Lib/xml/sax/saxutils.py The module xml.sax.saxutils contains a number of classes and functions that are commonly useful when creating SAX applications, either in direct use, or as base...

The following modules have specific security considerations: base64: base64 security considerations in RFC 4648, cgi: CGI security considerations, hashlib: all constructors take a “usedforsecurity”...

Source code: Lib/queue.py The queue module implements multi-producer, multi-consumer queues. It is especially useful in threaded programming when information must be exchanged safely between multip...

Here are a few examples of how to use the email package to read, write, and send simple email messages, as well as more complex MIME messages. First, let’s see how to create and send a simple text ...

Source code: Lib/pprint.py The pprint module provides a capability to “pretty-print” arbitrary Python data structures in a form which can be used as input to the interpreter. If the formatted struc...

Source code: Lib/reprlib.py The reprlib module provides a means for producing object representations with limits on the size of the resulting strings. This is used in the Python debugger and may be...