Undocumented Modules¶Here’s a quick listing of modules that are currently undocumented, but that should be documented. Feel free to contribute documentation for them! (Send via email to docs@python.org.) The idea and original contents for this chapter were taken from a posting by Fredrik Lundh; the specific contents of this chapter have been substantially revised. Miscellaneous useful utilities¶Some of these are very old and/or not very robust; marked with “hmm.”
Platform specific modules¶These modules are used to implement the os.path module, and are not documented beyond this mention. There’s little need to document these.
Multimedia¶
Undocumented Mac OS modules¶buildtools — Helper module for BuildApplet and Friends¶Platforms: Mac Deprecated since version 2.4. cfmfile — Code Fragment Resource module¶Platforms: Mac cfmfile is a module that understands Code Fragments and the accompanying “cfrg” resources. It can parse them and merge them, and is used by BuildApplication to combine all plugin modules to a single executable. Deprecated since version 2.4. icopen — Internet Config replacement for open()¶Platforms: Mac Importing icopen will replace the builtin open() with a version that uses Internet Config to set file type and creator for new files. Deprecated since version 2.6. macerrors — Mac OS Errors¶Platforms: Mac macerrors contains constant definitions for many Mac OS error codes. Deprecated since version 2.6. macresource — Locate script resources¶Platforms: Mac macresource helps scripts finding their resources, such as dialogs and menus, without requiring special case code for when the script is run under MacPython, as a MacPython applet or under OSX Python. Deprecated since version 2.6. PixMapWrapper — Wrapper for PixMap objects¶Platforms: Mac PixMapWrapper wraps a PixMap object with a Python object that allows access to the fields by name. It also has methods to convert to and from PIL images. Deprecated since version 2.6. videoreader — Read QuickTime movies¶Platforms: Mac videoreader reads and decodes QuickTime movies and passes a stream of images to your program. It also provides some support for audio tracks. Deprecated since version 2.6. Obsolete¶These modules are not normally available for import; additional work must be done to make them available. These extension modules written in C are not built by default. Under Unix, these must be enabled by uncommenting the appropriate lines in Modules/Setup in the build tree and either rebuilding Python if the modules are statically linked, or building and installing the shared object if using dynamically-loaded extensions.
SGI-specific Extension modules¶The following are SGI specific, and may be out of touch with the current version of reality.
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