A list of commonly used Python built-in modules.
11 Oct 2020 - fubar - Sreekar Guddeti
A list of commonly used Python built-in modules.
From the documentation of the Python Standard library,
Python’s standard library is very extensive, offering a wide range of facilities as indicated by the long table of contents listed below. The library contains built-in modules (written in C) that provide access to system functionality such as file I/O that would otherwise be inaccessible to Python programmers, as well as modules written in Python that provide standardized solutions for many problems that occur in everyday programming.
| Module | description |
|---|---|
| File and Directory Access | - |
| pathlib | This module offers classes representing filesystem paths with semantics appropriate for different operating systems. Path classes are divided between pure paths, which provide purely computational operations without I/O, and concrete paths, which inherit from pure paths but also provide I/O operations. |
| os | This module implements some useful functions on pathnames. |
| Runtime services | - |
| inspect | The inspect module provides several useful functions to help get information about live objects such as modules, classes, methods, functions, tracebacks, frame objects, and code objects. |
| Cryptographic services | - |
| hashlib | This module implements a common interface to many different secure hash and message digest algorithms. |