kevent.ident Value used to identify the event. The interpretation depends on the filter but it’s usually the file descriptor. In the constructor ident can either be an int or an object with a fileno() method. kevent stores the integer internally.

tokenize.detect_encoding(readline) The detect_encoding() function is used to detect the encoding that should be used to decode a Python source file. It requires one argument, readline, in the same way as the tokenize() generator. It will call readline a maximum of twice, and return the encoding used (as a string) and a list of any lines (not decoded from bytes) it has read in. It detects the encoding from the presence of a UTF-8 BOM or an encoding cookie as specified in PEP 263. If both a BO

pdb.run(statement, globals=None, locals=None) Execute the statement (given as a string or a code object) under debugger control. The debugger prompt appears before any code is executed; you can set breakpoints and type continue, or you can step through the statement using step or next (all these commands are explained below). The optional globals and locals arguments specify the environment in which the code is executed; by default the dictionary of the module __main__ is used. (See the expl

Element.removeAttributeNS(namespaceURI, localName) Remove an attribute by name. Note that it uses a localName, not a qname. No exception is raised if there is no matching attribute.

class mailbox.Message(message=None) A subclass of the email.message module’s Message. Subclasses of mailbox.Message add mailbox-format-specific state and behavior. If message is omitted, the new instance is created in a default, empty state. If message is an email.message.Message instance, its contents are copied; furthermore, any format-specific information is converted insofar as possible if message is a Message instance. If message is a string, a byte string, or a file, it should contain

window.addnstr(str, n[, attr]) window.addnstr(y, x, str, n[, attr]) Paint at most n characters of the string str at (y, x) with attributes attr, overwriting anything previously on the display.

abs(x) Return the absolute value of a number. The argument may be an integer or a floating point number. If the argument is a complex number, its magnitude is returned.

curses.doupdate() Update the physical screen. The curses library keeps two data structures, one representing the current physical screen contents and a virtual screen representing the desired next state. The doupdate() ground updates the physical screen to match the virtual screen. The virtual screen may be updated by a noutrefresh() call after write operations such as addstr() have been performed on a window. The normal refresh() call is simply noutrefresh() followed by doupdate(); if you h

ZipFile.setpassword(pwd) Set pwd as default password to extract encrypted files.

signal.pause() Cause the process to sleep until a signal is received; the appropriate handler will then be called. Returns nothing. Not on Windows. (See the Unix man page signal(2).) See also sigwait(), sigwaitinfo(), sigtimedwait() and sigpending().