17.8 Oddities

These modules are probably also obsolete, or just not very useful.

dump.py

-- Print python code that reconstructs a variable

find.py

-- find files matching pattern in directory tree

fpformat.py

-- General floating point formatting functions -- interesting demonstration of how to do this without using the C library

grep.py

-- grep

mutex.py

-- Mutual exclusion -- for use with module sched

packmail.py

-- create a self-unpacking Unix shell archive

poly.py

-- Polynomials

sched.py

-- event scheduler class

shutil.py

-- utility functions usable in a shell-like program

util.py

-- useful functions that don't fit elsewhere

zmod.py

-- Compute properties of mathematical "fields"

tzparse.py

-- Parse a timezone specification (unfinished)