17.3 Miscellaneous useful utilities

Some of these are very old and/or not very robust; marked with ``hmm''.

calendar.py

-- Calendar printing functions

ConfigParser.py

-- Parse a file of sectioned configuration parameters

cmp.py

-- Efficiently compare files

cmpcache.py

-- Efficiently compare files (uses statcache)

dircache.py

-- like os.listdir, but caches results

dircmp.py

-- class to build directory diff tools on

getpass.py

-- Utilities to get a password and/or the current user name.

linecache.py

-- Cache lines from files (used by pdb)

pipes.py

-- Conversion pipeline templates (hmm)

popen2.py

-- improved popen, can read AND write simultaneously

statcache.py

-- Maintain a cache of file stats

colorsys.py

-- Conversion between RGB and other color systems

dbhash.py

-- (g)dbm-like wrapper for bsdhash.hashopen

mhlib.py

-- MH interface

pty.py

-- Pseudo terminal utilities

tty.py

-- Terminal utilities

cmd.py

-- build line-oriented command interpreters (used by pdb)

bdb.py

-- A generic Python debugger base class (used by pdb)

wdb.py

-- A primitive windowing debugger based on STDWIN.

ihooks.py

-- Import hook support (for rexec)

bisect.py

-- Bisection algorithms (this is actually useful at times, especially as reference material)