Doc/library/someos.rst

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Optional Operating System Services
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The modules described in this chapter provide interfaces to operating system
features that are available on selected operating systems only. The interfaces
are generally modeled after the Unix or C interfaces but they are available on
some other systems as well (e.g. Windows).  Here's an overview:


.. toctree::

   select.rst
   threading.rst
   multiprocessing.rst
   mmap.rst
   readline.rst
   rlcompleter.rst
   dummy_threading.rst
   _thread.rst
   _dummy_thread.rst