debug() Run the test without collecting the result. This allows exceptions raised by the test to be propagated to the caller, and can be used to support running tests under a debugger.

datetime.strftime(format) Return a string representing the date and time, controlled by an explicit format string. For a complete list of formatting directives, see strftime() and strptime() Behavior.

DatagramProtocol.error_received(exc) Called when a previous send or receive operation raises an OSError. exc is the OSError instance. This method is called in rare conditions, when the transport (e.g. UDP) detects that a datagram couldn’t be delivered to its recipient. In many conditions though, undeliverable datagrams will be silently dropped.

class smtpd.PureProxy(localaddr, remoteaddr) Create a new pure proxy server. Arguments are as per SMTPServer. Everything will be relayed to remoteaddr. Note that running this has a good chance to make you into an open relay, so please be careful.

Handler.createLock() Initializes a thread lock which can be used to serialize access to underlying I/O functionality which may not be threadsafe.

ArgumentParser.parse_args(args=None, namespace=None) Convert argument strings to objects and assign them as attributes of the namespace. Return the populated namespace. Previous calls to add_argument() determine exactly what objects are created and how they are assigned. See the documentation for add_argument() for details. By default, the argument strings are taken from sys.argv, and a new empty Namespace object is created for the attributes.

Cmd.use_rawinput A flag, defaulting to true. If true, cmdloop() uses input() to display a prompt and read the next command; if false, sys.stdout.write() and sys.stdin.readline() are used. (This means that by importing readline, on systems that support it, the interpreter will automatically support Emacs-like line editing and command-history keystrokes.)

tixCommand.tix_cget(option) Returns the current value of the configuration option given by option. Option may be any of the configuration options.

Wave_write.setsampwidth(n) Set the sample width to n bytes.

test.support.findfile(filename, subdir=None) Return the path to the file named filename. If no match is found filename is returned. This does not equal a failure since it could be the path to the file. Setting subdir indicates a relative path to use to find the file rather than looking directly in the path directories.