Python Standard Library

Python imports its most useful applications from the Python Standard Library, a collection of commonly used procedures that can be pasted into a Python script rather than written from scratch. Successful Python programmers rely heavily on the Standard Library, and this book illuminates its capabilities with more than 300 real-world example scripts, based on the author's work with 2500 answers from the Python newsgroup. A reference work for Python programmers interested in a resource filled with time-saving modules that perform common programming tasks. Topics include: Introduction to the Python 2.0 standard modules; Core modules (including modules for operating system functions, string, math, time, and garbage collection); File and directory modules; Encryption and security modules; Threads, processes, pipes, and signals in Python; Persisting Python objects (marshalling and pickling objects); Python modules for XML, HTML, and SGML.