POP3.getwelcome() Returns the greeting string sent by the POP3 server.

POP3.apop(user, secret) Use the more secure APOP authentication to log into the POP3 server.

POP3.noop() Do nothing. Might be used as a keep-alive.

plistlib.readPlistFromBytes(data) Read a plist data from a bytes object. Return the root object. See load() for a description of the keyword arguments. Note Dict values in the result have a __getattr__ method that defers to __getitem_. This means that you can use attribute access to access items of these dictionaries. Deprecated since version 3.4: Use loads() instead.

plistlib.writePlistToBytes(rootObject) Return rootObject as an XML plist-formatted bytes object. Deprecated since version 3.4: Use dumps() instead.

plistlib.writePlist(rootObject, pathOrFile) Write rootObject to an XML plist file. pathOrFile may be either a file name or a (writable and binary) file object Deprecated since version 3.4: Use dump() instead.

plistlib.readPlist(pathOrFile) Read a plist file. pathOrFile may be either a file name or a (readable and binary) file object. Returns the unpacked root object (which usually is a dictionary). This function calls load() to do the actual work, see the documentation of that function for an explanation of the keyword arguments. Note Dict values in the result have a __getattr__ method that defers to __getitem_. This means that you can use attribute access to access items of these dictionaries.

plistlib.loads(data, *, fmt=None, use_builtin_types=True, dict_type=dict) Load a plist from a bytes object. See load() for an explanation of the keyword arguments. New in version 3.4.

platform.win32_ver(release='', version='', csd='', ptype='') Get additional version information from the Windows Registry and return a tuple (release, version, csd, ptype) referring to OS release, version number, CSD level (service pack) and OS type (multi/single processor). As a hint: ptype is 'Uniprocessor Free' on single processor NT machines and 'Multiprocessor Free' on multi processor machines. The ‘Free’ refers to the OS version being free of debugging code. It could also state ‘Checke

plistlib.dumps(value, *, fmt=FMT_XML, sort_keys=True, skipkeys=False) Return value as a plist-formatted bytes object. See the documentation for dump() for an explanation of the keyword arguments of this function. New in version 3.4.