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posix | The most common POSIX system calls (normally used via module os). |
pwd | The password database (getpwnam() and friends). |
grp | The group database (getgrnam() and friends). |
crypt | The crypt() function used to check Unix passwords. |
dl | Call C functions in shared objects. |
dbm | The standard ``database'' interface, based on ndbm. |
gdbm | GNU's reinterpretation of dbm. |
termios | POSIX style tty control. |
TERMIOS | Symbolic constants required to use the termios module. |
tty | Utility functions that perform common terminal control operations. |
pty | Pseudo-Terminal Handling for SGI and Linux. |
fcntl | The fcntl() and ioctl() system calls. |
pipes | A Python interface to Unix shell pipelines. |
posixfile | A file-like object with support for locking. |
resource | An interface to provide resource usage information on the current process. |
nis | Interface to Sun's NIS (a.k.a. Yellow Pages) library. |
syslog | An interface to the Unix syslog library routines. |
commands | Utility functions for running external commands. |