threading.stack_size([size]) Return the thread stack size used when creating new threads. The optional size argument specifies the stack size to be used for subsequently created threads, and must be 0 (use platform or configured default) or a positive integer value of at least 32,768 (32 KiB). If size is not specified, 0 is used. If changing the thread stack size is unsupported, a RuntimeError is raised. If the specified stack size is invalid, a ValueError is raised and the stack size is unm

class filecmp.dircmp(a, b, ignore=None, hide=None) Construct a new directory comparison object, to compare the directories a and b. ignore is a list of names to ignore, and defaults to filecmp.DEFAULT_IGNORES. hide is a list of names to hide, and defaults to [os.curdir, os.pardir]. The dircmp class compares files by doing shallow comparisons as described for filecmp.cmp(). The dircmp class provides the following methods: report() Print (to sys.stdout) a comparison between a and b. rep

st_birthtime Time of file creation.

SSLContext.load_verify_locations(cafile=None, capath=None, cadata=None) Load a set of “certification authority” (CA) certificates used to validate other peers’ certificates when verify_mode is other than CERT_NONE. At least one of cafile or capath must be specified. This method can also load certification revocation lists (CRLs) in PEM or DER format. In order to make use of CRLs, SSLContext.verify_flags must be configured properly. The cafile string, if present, is the path to a file of conc

class logging.LoggerAdapter(logger, extra) Returns an instance of LoggerAdapter initialized with an underlying Logger instance and a dict-like object. process(msg, kwargs) Modifies the message and/or keyword arguments passed to a logging call in order to insert contextual information. This implementation takes the object passed as extra to the constructor and adds it to kwargs using key ‘extra’. The return value is a (msg, kwargs) tuple which has the (possibly modified) versions of the ar

Unpacker.get_position() Returns the current unpack position in the data buffer.

itertools.groupby(iterable, key=None) Make an iterator that returns consecutive keys and groups from the iterable. The key is a function computing a key value for each element. If not specified or is None, key defaults to an identity function and returns the element unchanged. Generally, the iterable needs to already be sorted on the same key function. The operation of groupby() is similar to the uniq filter in Unix. It generates a break or new group every time the value of the key function

warnings.warn(message, category=None, stacklevel=1) Issue a warning, or maybe ignore it or raise an exception. The category argument, if given, must be a warning category class (see above); it defaults to UserWarning. Alternatively message can be a Warning instance, in which case category will be ignored and message.__class__ will be used. In this case the message text will be str(message). This function raises an exception if the particular warning issued is changed into an error by the war

assertWarnsRegex(warning, regex, callable, *args, **kwds) assertWarnsRegex(warning, regex, msg=None) Like assertWarns() but also tests that regex matches on the message of the triggered warning. regex may be a regular expression object or a string containing a regular expression suitable for use by re.search(). Example: self.assertWarnsRegex(DeprecationWarning, r'legacy_function\(\) is deprecated', legacy_function, 'XYZ') or: with self.assertWarnsR

msilib.add_data(database, table, records) Add all records to the table named table in database. The table argument must be one of the predefined tables in the MSI schema, e.g. 'Feature', 'File', 'Component', 'Dialog', 'Control', etc. records should be a list of tuples, each one containing all fields of a record according to the schema of the table. For optional fields, None can be passed. Field values can be ints, strings, or instances of the Binary class.