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author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1997-03-27 20:57:52 (GMT) |
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committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1997-03-27 20:57:52 (GMT) |
commit | 8d2893b5b20233785e959d14e6939483feed2933 (patch) | |
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Added a list of the main undocumented extension modules.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libundoc.tex b/Doc/lib/libundoc.tex index c2ad102..735e902 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libundoc.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libundoc.tex @@ -212,5 +212,30 @@ pdb.pm() or traceback.py instead) \section{Extension modules} -There are some undocumented goodies here, too. Someone should make a -list. +bsddbmodule.c -- Interface to the Berkeley DB interface (yet another +dbm clone). + +cmathmodule.c -- Exactly the same as math, except takes complex +arguments and returns complex results. + +cursesmodule.c -- Curses interface. + +dbhashmodule.c -- Obsolete. + +dlmodule.c -- A highly experimental and dangerous device for calling +arbitrary C functions in arbitrary shared libraries. + +newmodule.c -- Tommy Burnette's `new' module (creates new empty +objects of certain kinds) -- dangerous. + +nismodule.c -- NIS (a.k.a. Sun's Yellow Pages) interface. + +timingmodule.c -- Measure time intervals to high resolution (obsolete +-- use time.clock() instead). + +The following are SGI specific: + +clmodule.c -- Interface to the SGI compression library. + +svmodule.c -- Interface to the ``simple video'' board on SGI Indigo +(obsolete hardware). |