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Optional Operating System Services
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The modules described in this chapter provide interfaces to operating
system features that are available on selected operating systems only.
The interfaces are generally modeled after the UNIX or C interfaces but
they are available on some other systems as well (e.g. Windows or NT).
Here's an overview:

signal

socket

select

thread

threading

Queue

mmap

anydbm

dumbdbm

dbhash

whichdb

bsddb

zlib

gzip

zipfile

readline

rlcompleter