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Codec lookup API: In the following functions, the encoding string is looked up converted to all lower-case characters, which makes encodings looked up through this mechanism effectively case-insens...

Python supports weak references as first-class objects. There are two specific object types which directly implement weak references. The first is a simple reference object, and the second acts as ...

Author, Raymond Hettinger,. This article explains the new features in Python 3.1, compared to 3.0. Python 3.1 was released on June 27, 2009. PEP 372: Ordered Dictionaries: Regular Python dictionari...

These functions were part of the “old buffer protocol” API in Python 2. In Python 3, this protocol doesn’t exist anymore but the functions are still exposed to ease porting 2.x code. They act as a ...

Source code: Lib/lzma.py This module provides classes and convenience functions for compressing and decompressing data using the LZMA compression algorithm. Also included is a file interface suppor...

Source code: Lib/tkinter/tix.py The tkinter.tix(Tk Interface Extension) module provides an additional rich set of widgets. Although the standard Tk library has many useful widgets, they are far fro...

Source code: Lib/bisect.py This module provides support for maintaining a list in sorted order without having to sort the list after each insertion. For long lists of items with expensive compariso...

Source code: Lib/webbrowser.py The webbrowser module provides a high-level interface to allow displaying web-based documents to users. Under most circumstances, simply calling the open() function f...

Source code: Lib/tempfile.py This module creates temporary files and directories. It works on all supported platforms. TemporaryFile, NamedTemporaryFile, TemporaryDirectory, and SpooledTemporaryFil...