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4Optional Operating System Services
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7The modules described in this chapter provide interfaces to operating system
8features that are available on selected operating systems only. The interfaces
9are generally modeled after the Unix or C interfaces but they are available on
Georg Brandl7f01a132009-09-16 15:58:14 +000010some other systems as well (e.g. Windows). Here's an overview:
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15 select.rst
Georg Brandl116aa622007-08-15 14:28:22 +000016 threading.rst
Benjamin Petersone711caf2008-06-11 16:44:04 +000017 multiprocessing.rst
Antoine Pitrou64a467d2010-12-12 20:34:49 +000018 concurrent.futures.rst
Georg Brandl116aa622007-08-15 14:28:22 +000019 mmap.rst
20 readline.rst
21 rlcompleter.rst
Antoine Pitrou64a467d2010-12-12 20:34:49 +000022 dummy_threading.rst
23 _thread.rst
24 _dummy_thread.rst