| Guido van Rossum | ecde781 | 1995-03-28 13:35:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | \chapter{Miscellaneous Services} |
| Fred Drake | 55fca54 | 1998-02-18 15:21:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | \label{misc} |
| Guido van Rossum | ecde781 | 1995-03-28 13:35:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | |
| 4 | The modules described in this chapter provide miscellaneous services |
| 5 | that are available in all Python versions. Here's an overview: |
| 6 | |
| 7 | \begin{description} |
| 8 | |
| 9 | \item[math] |
| Fred Drake | 55fca54 | 1998-02-18 15:21:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | --- Mathematical functions (\function{sin()} etc.). |
| Guido van Rossum | ecde781 | 1995-03-28 13:35:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | |
| Guido van Rossum | 8b0927e | 1998-02-11 22:33:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | \item[cmath] |
| 13 | --- Mathematical functions for complex numbers. |
| 14 | |
| Guido van Rossum | ecde781 | 1995-03-28 13:35:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | \item[whrandom] |
| Guido van Rossum | 571391b | 1997-04-03 22:41:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | --- Floating point pseudo-random number generator. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | \item[random] |
| 19 | --- Generate pseudo-random numbers with various common distributions. |
| 20 | |
| Guido van Rossum | ecde781 | 1995-03-28 13:35:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | \item[array] |
| 22 | --- Efficient arrays of uniformly typed numeric values. |
| 23 | |
| Fred Drake | c48b772 | 1998-04-11 04:22:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 24 | \item[fileinput] |
| 25 | --- Perl-like iteration over lines from multiple input streams, with |
| 26 | ``save in place'' capability. |
| 27 | |
| Guido van Rossum | ecde781 | 1995-03-28 13:35:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | \end{description} |