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author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2007-08-15 14:26:55 (GMT) |
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libundoc.tex b/Doc/lib/libundoc.tex deleted file mode 100644 index e7d388f..0000000 --- a/Doc/lib/libundoc.tex +++ /dev/null @@ -1,113 +0,0 @@ -\chapter{Undocumented Modules \label{undoc}} - -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 \email{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. - - -\section{Frameworks} - -Frameworks tend to be harder to document, but are well worth the -effort spent. - -\begin{description} -\item None at this time. -\end{description} - - -\section{Miscellaneous useful utilities} - -Some of these are very old and/or not very robust; marked with ``hmm.'' - -\begin{description} -\item[\module{bdb}] ---- A generic Python debugger base class (used by pdb). - -\item[\module{ihooks}] ---- Import hook support (for \refmodule{rexec}; may become obsolete). -\end{description} - - - -\section{Platform specific modules} - -These modules are used to implement the \refmodule{os.path} module, -and are not documented beyond this mention. There's little need to -document these. - -\begin{description} -\item[\module{ntpath}] ---- Implementation of \module{os.path} on Win32, Win64, WinCE, and - OS/2 platforms. - -\item[\module{posixpath}] ---- Implementation of \module{os.path} on \POSIX. - -\item[\module{bsddb185}] ---- Backwards compatibility module for systems which still use the Berkeley - DB 1.85 module. It is normally only available on certain BSD \UNIX-based - systems. It should never be used directly. -\end{description} - - -\section{Multimedia} - -\begin{description} -\item[\module{audiodev}] ---- Platform-independent API for playing audio data. - -\item[\module{linuxaudiodev}] ---- Play audio data on the Linux audio device. Replaced in Python 2.3 - by the \module{ossaudiodev} module. - -\item[\module{sunaudio}] ---- Interpret Sun audio headers (may become obsolete or a tool/demo). - -\item[\module{toaiff}] ---- Convert "arbitrary" sound files to AIFF files; should probably - become a tool or demo. Requires the external program \program{sox}. -\end{description} - - -\section{Obsolete \label{obsolete-modules}} - -These modules are not normally available for import; additional work -must be done to make them available. - -%%% lib-old is empty as of Python 2.5 -% Those which are written in Python will be installed into the directory -% \file{lib-old/} installed as part of the standard library. To use -% these, the directory must be added to \code{sys.path}, possibly using -% \envvar{PYTHONPATH}. - -These extension modules written in C are not built by default. -Under \UNIX, these must be enabled by uncommenting the appropriate -lines in \file{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. - -% XXX need Windows instructions! - -\begin{description} -\item[\module{timing}] ---- Measure time intervals to high resolution (use \function{time.clock()} - instead). -\end{description} - -\section{SGI-specific Extension modules} - -The following are SGI specific, and may be out of touch with the -current version of reality. - -\begin{description} -\item[\module{cl}] ---- Interface to the SGI compression library. - -\item[\module{sv}] ---- Interface to the ``simple video'' board on SGI Indigo - (obsolete hardware). -\end{description} |