40. Undocumented Modules

Here’s a quick listing of modules that are currently undocumented, but that should be documented. Feel free to contribute documentation for them! (Send via email to docs@python.org.)

The idea and original contents for this chapter were taken from a posting by Fredrik Lundh; the specific contents of this chapter have been substantially revised.

40.1. Miscellaneous useful utilities

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

ihooks
— Import hook support (for rexec; may become obsolete). Removed in Python 3.x.

40.2. Platform specific modules

These modules are used to implement the os.path module, and are not documented beyond this mention. There’s little need to document these.

ntpath
— Implementation of os.path on Win32, Win64, WinCE, and OS/2 platforms.
posixpath
— Implementation of os.path on POSIX.
bsddb185
— Backwards compatibility module for systems which still use the Berkeley DB 1.85 module. It is normally only available on certain BSD Unix-based systems. It should never be used directly.

40.3. Multimedia

audiodev
— Platform-independent API for playing audio data. Removed in Python 3.x.
linuxaudiodev
— Play audio data on the Linux audio device. Replaced in Python 2.3 by the ossaudiodev module. Removed in Python 3.x.
sunaudio
— Interpret Sun audio headers (may become obsolete or a tool/demo). Removed in Python 3.x.
toaiff
— Convert “arbitrary” sound files to AIFF files; should probably become a tool or demo. Requires the external program sox. Removed in Python 3.x.

40.4. Undocumented Mac OS modules

40.4.1. applesingle — AppleSingle decoder

Deprecated since version 2.6:

Deprecated since version 2.6.

40.4.2. buildtools — Helper module for BuildApplet and Friends

Deprecated since version 2.4:

Deprecated since version 2.4.

40.4.3. cfmfile — Code Fragment Resource module

cfmfile is a module that understands Code Fragments and the accompanying “cfrg” resources. It can parse them and merge them, and is used by BuildApplication to combine all plugin modules to a single executable.

Deprecated since version 2.4:

Deprecated since version 2.4.