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Python: Essential Reference
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Python: Essential Reference

by David M. Beazley
July 2009
Intermediate to advanced
744 pages
20h 2m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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25. Miscellaneous Library Modules

The modules listed in this section are not covered in detail in this book but are still considered to be part of the standard library. These modules have mostly been omitted from previous chapters because they are either extremely low-level and of limited use, restricted to very specific platforms, obsolete, or so complicated that coverage would require a complete book on the topic. Although these modules are have been omitted from this book, online documentation is available for each module at http://docs.python.org/library/modname. An index of all modules is also available at http://docs.python.org/library/modindex.html.

The modules listed here represent a common subset of functionality between Python 2 and ...

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