class email.charset.Charset(input_charset=DEFAULT_CHARSET) Map character sets to their email properties. This class provides information about the requirements imposed on email for a specific character set. It also provides convenience routines for converting between character sets, given the availability of the applicable codecs. Given a character set, it will do its best to provide information on how to use that character set in an email message in an RFC-compliant way. Certain character s

xmlparser.StartCdataSectionHandler() Called at the start of a CDATA section. This and EndCdataSectionHandler are needed to be able to identify the syntactical start and end for CDATA sections.

curses.ascii.isprint(c) Checks for any ASCII printable character including space.

FTP.sendcmd(cmd) Send a simple command string to the server and return the response string.

multiprocessing.get_all_start_methods() Returns a list of the supported start methods, the first of which is the default. The possible start methods are 'fork', 'spawn' and 'forkserver'. On Windows only 'spawn' is available. On Unix 'fork' and 'spawn' are always supported, with 'fork' being the default. New in version 3.4.

failureException This class attribute gives the exception raised by the test method. If a test framework needs to use a specialized exception, possibly to carry additional information, it must subclass this exception in order to “play fair” with the framework. The initial value of this attribute is AssertionError.

platform.python_branch() Returns a string identifying the Python implementation SCM branch.

NNTP.descriptions(grouppattern) Send a LIST NEWSGROUPS command, where grouppattern is a wildmat string as specified in RFC 3977 (it’s essentially the same as DOS or UNIX shell wildcard strings). Return a pair (response, descriptions), where descriptions is a dictionary mapping group names to textual descriptions. >>> resp, descs = s.descriptions('gmane.comp.python.*') >>> len(descs) 295 >>> descs.popitem() ('gmane.comp.python.bio.general', 'BioPython discussion l

step The value of the step parameter (or 1 if the parameter was not supplied)

stringprep.map_table_b2(code) Return the mapped value for code according to tableB.2 (Mapping for case-folding used with NFKC).