| \chapter{Miscellaneous Services} |
| \label{misc} |
| |
| The modules described in this chapter provide miscellaneous services |
| that are available in all Python versions. Here's an overview: |
| |
| \begin{description} |
| |
| \item[math] |
| --- Mathematical functions (\function{sin()} etc.). |
| |
| \item[cmath] |
| --- Mathematical functions for complex numbers. |
| |
| \item[whrandom] |
| --- Floating point pseudo-random number generator. |
| |
| \item[random] |
| --- Generate pseudo-random numbers with various common distributions. |
| |
| \item[array] |
| --- Efficient arrays of uniformly typed numeric values. |
| |
| \item[fileinput] |
| --- Perl-like iteration over lines from multiple input streams, with |
| ``save in place'' capability. |
| |
| \item[cmd] |
| --- Build line-oriented command interpreters; this is used by module |
| \module{pdb}. |
| |
| \end{description} |