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16. Optional Operating System Services¶
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 or NT). Here’s an overview:
- 16.1.
select
— Waiting for I/O completion - 16.2.
threading
— Higher-level threading interface - 16.3.
thread
— Multiple threads of control - 16.4.
dummy_threading
— Drop-in replacement for thethreading
module - 16.5.
dummy_thread
— Drop-in replacement for thethread
module - 16.6.
multiprocessing
— Process-based “threading” interface- 16.6.1. Introduction
- 16.6.2. Reference
- 16.6.2.1.
Process
and exceptions - 16.6.2.2. Pipes and Queues
- 16.6.2.3. Miscellaneous
- 16.6.2.4. Connection Objects
- 16.6.2.5. Synchronization primitives
- 16.6.2.6. Shared
ctypes
Objects - 16.6.2.7. Managers
- 16.6.2.8. Proxy Objects
- 16.6.2.9. Process Pools
- 16.6.2.10. Listeners and Clients
- 16.6.2.11. Authentication keys
- 16.6.2.12. Logging
- 16.6.2.13. The
multiprocessing.dummy
module
- 16.6.2.1.
- 16.6.3. Programming guidelines
- 16.6.4. Examples
- 16.7.
mmap
— Memory-mapped file support - 16.8.
readline
— GNU readline interface - 16.9.
rlcompleter
— Completion function for GNU readline