strides A tuple of integers the length of ndim giving the size in bytes to access each element for each dimension of the array. Changed in version 3.3: An empty tuple instead of None when ndim = 0.

multiprocessing.set_start_method(method) Set the method which should be used to start child processes. method can be 'fork', 'spawn' or 'forkserver'. Note that this should be called at most once, and it should be protected inside the if __name__ == '__main__' clause of the main module. New in version 3.4.

multiprocessing.get_context(method=None) Return a context object which has the same attributes as the multiprocessing module. If method is None then the default context is returned. Otherwise method should be 'fork', 'spawn', 'forkserver'. ValueError is raised if the specified start method is not available. New in version 3.4.

emit(record) Outputs the record to the file, but first checks to see if the file has changed. If it has, the existing stream is flushed and closed and the file opened again, before outputting the record to the file.

close() Signal the parser that the data stream is terminated. Unlike XMLParser.close(), this method always returns None. Any events not yet retrieved when the parser is closed can still be read with read_events().

HTTPResponse.readinto(b) Reads up to the next len(b) bytes of the response body into the buffer b. Returns the number of bytes read. New in version 3.3.

get_app() Returns the currently-set application callable.

IMAP4.login(user, password) Identify the client using a plaintext password. The password will be quoted.

class selectors.KqueueSelector select.kqueue()-based selector. fileno() This returns the file descriptor used by the underlying select.kqueue() object.

aifc.setsampwidth(width) Specify the size in bytes of audio samples.