Source code: Lib/wave.py The wave module provides a convenient interface to the Waveform Audio “WAVE” (or “WAV”) file format. Only uncompressed PCM encoded wave files are supported. The wave module...

Type check macros: Direct API functions: Macros: These macros trade safety for speed and they don’t check pointers.

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/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...

A C extension for CPython is a shared library (e.g. a.so file on Linux,.pyd on Windows), which exports an initialization function. To be importable, the shared library must be available on PYTHONPA...

Source code: Lib/quopri.py This module performs quoted-printable transport encoding and decoding, as defined in RFC 1521: “MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part One: Mechanisms for Spec...

Starting with the 3.13 release, CPython has experimental support for a build of Python called free threading where the global interpreter lock(GIL) is disabled. Free-threaded execution allows for f...

Source code: Lib/poplib.py This module defines a class, POP3, which encapsulates a connection to a POP3 server and implements the protocol as defined in RFC 1939. The POP3 class supports both the m...

In the following examples, input and output are distinguished by the presence or absence of prompts (>>> and …): to repeat the example, you must type everything after the prompt, when the prompt ap...

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...