Source code: Lib/xml/sax/xmlreader.py SAX parsers implement the XMLReader interface. They are implemented in a Python module, which must provide a function create_parser(). This function is invoked...

For applications that require data compression, the functions in this module allow compression and decompression, using the zlib library. The zlib library has its own home page at https://www.zlib....

Editor, Raymond Hettinger,. This article explains the new features in Python 3.8, compared to 3.7. Python 3.8 was released on October 14, 2019. For full details, see the changelog. Summary – Releas...

Editor, Łukasz Langa,. This article explains the new features in Python 3.9, compared to 3.8. Python 3.9 was released on October 5, 2020. For full details, see the changelog. Summary – Release high...

This module provides basic mechanisms for measuring and controlling system resources utilized by a program. Availability: Unix, not Emscripten, not WASI. Symbolic constants are used to specify part...

Author, Bob Savage < bobsavage@mac.com>,. Python on a Mac running macOS is in principle very similar to Python on any other Unix platform, but there are a number of additional features such as the ...

Source code: Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py xml.dom.minidom is a minimal implementation of the Document Object Model interface, with an API similar to that in other languages. It is intended to be simpler ...

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...

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...

All integers are implemented as “long” integer objects of arbitrary size. On error, most PyLong_As* APIs return(return type)-1 which cannot be distinguished from a number. Use PyErr_Occurred() to d...