17.10 Extension modules

bsddbmodule.c

-- Interface to the Berkeley DB interface (yet another dbm clone).

cursesmodule.c

-- Curses interface.

dlmodule.c

-- A highly experimental and dangerous device for calling arbitrary C functions in arbitrary shared libraries.

newmodule.c

-- Tommy Burnette's `new' module (creates new empty objects of certain kinds) -- dangerous.

nismodule.c

-- NIS (a.k.a. Sun's Yellow Pages) interface.

timingmodule.c

-- Measure time intervals to high resolution (obsolete -- use time.clock() instead).

stdwinmodule.c

-- Interface to STDWIN (an old, unsupported platform-independent GUI package). Obsolete; use Tkinter for a platform-independent GUI instead.

The following are SGI specific:

clmodule.c

-- Interface to the SGI compression library.

svmodule.c

-- Interface to the ``simple video'' board on SGI Indigo (obsolete hardware).

The following is Windows specific:

msvcrtmodule.c

(in directory "PC/") -- define a number of Windows specific goodies like khbit(), getch() and setmode(). (Windows 95 and NT only.)