Source code: Lib/getpass.py Availability: not WASI. This module does not work or is not available on WebAssembly. See WebAssembly platforms for more information. The getpass module provides two fun...

Source code: Lib/http/__init__.py http is a package that collects several modules for working with the HyperText Transfer Protocol: http.client is a low-level HTTP protocol client; for high-level U...

This module performs file and I/O control on file descriptors. It is an interface to the fcntl() and ioctl() Unix routines. See the fcntl(2) and ioctl(2) Unix manual pages for full details. Availab...

This module provides access to the select() and poll() functions available in most operating systems, devpoll() available on Solaris and derivatives, epoll() available on Linux 2.5+ and kqueue() av...

This module provides APIs to manage, store, and access context-local state. The ContextVar class is used to declare and work with Context Variables. The copy_context() function and the Context clas...

“Descriptors” are objects that describe some attribute of an object. They are found in the dictionary of type objects.

Source code: Lib/smtplib.py The smtplib module defines an SMTP client session object that can be used to send mail to any internet machine with an SMTP or ESMTP listener daemon. For details of SMTP...

This document aims to give an overview of macOS-specific behavior you should know about to get started with Python on Mac computers. Python on a Mac running macOS is very similar to Python on other...

Author, Andrew Dalke and Raymond Hettinger,. Python lists have a built-in list.sort() method that modifies the list in-place. There is also a sorted() built-in function that builds a new sorted lis...

Source code: Lib/urllib/ urllib is a package that collects several modules for working with URLs: urllib.request for opening and reading URLs, urllib.error containing the exceptions raised by urlli...