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

Functions for number conversion and formatted string output. PyOS_snprintf() and PyOS_vsnprintf() wrap the Standard C library functions snprintf() and vsnprintf(). Their purpose is to guarantee con...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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/netrc.py The netrc class parses and encapsulates the netrc file format used by the Unix ftp program and other FTP clients. netrc Objects: A netrc instance has the following methods...

Source code: Lib/urllib/request.py The urllib.request module defines functions and classes which help in opening URLs (mostly HTTP) in a complex world — basic and digest authentication, redirection...

Source code: Lib/zipimport.py This module adds the ability to import Python modules (*.py,*.pyc) and packages from ZIP-format archives. It is usually not needed to use the zipimport module explicit...