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6. Generic Operating System Services

The modules described in this chapter provide interfaces to operating system features that are available on (almost) all operating systems, such as files and a clock. The interfaces are generally modeled after the Unix or C interfaces, but they are available on most other systems as well. Here's an overview:

os		Miscellaneous operating system interfaces.
os.path		Common pathname manipulations.
dircache		Return directory listing, with cache mechanism.
stat		Utilities for interpreting the results of os.stat(), os.lstat() and os.fstat().
statcache		Stat files, and remember results.
statvfs		Constants for interpreting the result of os.statvfs().
filecmp		Compare files efficiently.
popen2		Subprocesses with accessible standard I/O streams.
datetime		Basic date and time types.
time		Time access and conversions.
sched		General purpose event scheduler.
mutex		Lock and queue for mutual exclusion.
getpass		Portable reading of passwords and retrieval of the userid.
curses		An interface to the curses library, providing portable terminal handling.
curses.textpad		Emacs-like input editing in a curses window.
curses.wrapper		Terminal configuration wrapper for curses programs.
curses.ascii		Constants and set-membership functions for ASCII characters.
curses.panel		A panel stack extension that adds depth to curses windows.
getopt		Portable parser for command line options; support both short and long option names.
optparse		Powerful, flexible, extensible, easy-to-use command-line parsing library.
tempfile		Generate temporary files and directories.
errno		Standard errno system symbols.
glob		Unix shell style pathname pattern expansion.
fnmatch		Unix shell style filename pattern matching.
shutil		High-level file operations, including copying.
locale		Internationalization services.
gettext		Multilingual internationalization services.
logging		Logging module for Python based on PEP 282.

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