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.
Some of these are very old and/or not very robust; marked with “hmm.”
— Import hook support (for rexec; may become obsolete).
Warning
The ihooks module has been removed in Python 3.0.
These modules are used to implement the os.path module, and are not documented beyond this mention. There’s little need to document these.
— Platform-independent API for playing audio data.
Warning
The audiodev module has been removed in 3.0.
— Play audio data on the Linux audio device. Replaced in Python 2.3 by the ossaudiodev module.
Warning
The linuxaudiodev module has been removed in Python 3.0.
— Interpret Sun audio headers (may become obsolete or a tool/demo).
Warning
The sunaudio module has been removed in Python 3.0.
— Convert “arbitrary” sound files to AIFF files; should probably become a tool or demo. Requires the external program sox.
Warning
The toaiff module has been removed in 3.0.
Platforms: Mac
Deprecated since version 2.4.
Platforms: Mac
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.
Platforms: Mac
Importing icopen will replace the builtin open() with a version that uses Internet Config to set file type and creator for new files.
Deprecated since version 2.6.
Platforms: Mac
macerrors contains constant definitions for many Mac OS error codes.
Deprecated since version 2.6.
Platforms: Mac
macresource helps scripts finding their resources, such as dialogs and menus, without requiring special case code for when the script is run under MacPython, as a MacPython applet or under OSX Python.
Deprecated since version 2.6.
Platforms: Mac
PixMapWrapper wraps a PixMap object with a Python object that allows access to the fields by name. It also has methods to convert to and from PIL images.
Deprecated since version 2.6.
Platforms: Mac
videoreader reads and decodes QuickTime movies and passes a stream of images to your program. It also provides some support for audio tracks.
Deprecated since version 2.6.
These modules are not normally available for import; additional work must be done to make them available.
These extension modules written in C are not built by default. Under Unix, these must be enabled by uncommenting the appropriate lines in Modules/Setup in the build tree and either rebuilding Python if the modules are statically linked, or building and installing the shared object if using dynamically-loaded extensions.
— Measure time intervals to high resolution (use time.clock() instead).
Warning
The timing module has been removed in Python 3.0.
The following are SGI specific, and may be out of touch with the current version of reality.
— Interface to the “simple video” board on SGI Indigo (obsolete hardware).
Warning
The sv module has been removed in Python 3.0.
