diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/lib/libundoc.tex')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libundoc.tex | 33 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libundoc.tex b/Doc/lib/libundoc.tex index 5be93dd..fac635a 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libundoc.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libundoc.tex @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ reference material. \item[\module{Tkdnd}] --- Drag-and-drop support for \module{Tkinter}. +\item[\module{turtle}] +--- Turtle graphics in a Tk window. + \item[\module{test}] --- Regression testing framework. This is used for the Python regression test, but is useful for other Python libraries as well. @@ -35,6 +38,11 @@ This is a package rather than a module. Some of these are very old and/or not very robust; marked with ``hmm.'' \begin{description} +\item[\module{dircmp}] +--- Class to build directory diff tools on (may become a demo or tool). +\deprecated{1.6}{The \refmodule{filecmp} module will replace +\module{dircmp}.} + \item[\module{bdb}] --- A generic Python debugger base class (used by pdb) @@ -72,7 +80,7 @@ document these. --- Platform-independent API for playing audio data \item[\module{sunaudio}] ---- interpret sun audio headers (may become obsolete or a tool/demo) +--- Interpret Sun audio headers (may become obsolete or a tool/demo) \item[\module{toaiff}] --- Convert "arbitrary" sound files to AIFF files; should probably @@ -80,14 +88,23 @@ become a tool or demo. Requires the external program \program{sox}. \end{description} -\section{Obsolete} +\section{Obsolete \label{obsolete-modules}} + +These modules are not normally available for import; additional work +must be done to make them available. + +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}. + +Obsolete 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. -These modules are not on the standard module search path; -\indexiii{module}{search}{path} -but are available in the directory \file{lib-old/} installed under -\file{\textrm{\$prefix}/lib/python1.5/}. % $ <-- bow to font lock -To use any of these modules, add that directory to \code{sys.path}, -possibly using \envvar{PYTHONPATH}. +% XXX need Windows instructions! \begin{description} \item[\module{addpack}] |