The distutils package provides support for building and installing additional modules into a Python installation. The new modules may be either 100%-pure Python, or may be extension modules written in C, or may be collections of Python packages which include modules coded in both Python and C. Most Python users will not want to use this module directly, but instead use the cross-version tools maintained by the Python Packaging Authority. In particular, setuptools is an enhanced alternative to d

operator.ilshift(a, b) operator.__ilshift__(a, b) a = ilshift(a, b) is equivalent to a <<= b.

object.__getnewargs_ex__() In protocols 4 and newer, classes that implements the __getnewargs_ex__() method can dictate the values passed to the __new__() method upon unpickling. The method must return a pair (args, kwargs) where args is a tuple of positional arguments and kwargs a dictionary of named arguments for constructing the object. Those will be passed to the __new__() method upon unpickling. You should implement this method if the __new__() method of your class requires keyword-only

class mailbox.MMDF(path, factory=None, create=True) A subclass of Mailbox for mailboxes in MMDF format. Parameter factory is a callable object that accepts a file-like message representation (which behaves as if opened in binary mode) and returns a custom representation. If factory is None, MMDFMessage is used as the default message representation. If create is True, the mailbox is created if it does not exist. MMDF is a single-file mailbox format invented for the Multichannel Memorandum Dis

gzip.compress(data, compresslevel=9) Compress the data, returning a bytes object containing the compressed data. compresslevel has the same meaning as in the GzipFile constructor above. New in version 3.2.

runcall(func, *args, **kwds) Debug a single function call, and return its result.

__del__() Prepare for object destruction. IOBase provides a default implementation of this method that calls the instance’s close() method.

class configparser.RawConfigParser(defaults=None, dict_type=collections.OrderedDict, allow_no_value=False, *, delimiters=('=', ':'), comment_prefixes=('#', ';'), inline_comment_prefixes=None, strict=True, empty_lines_in_values=True, default_section=configparser.DEFAULTSECT[, interpolation]) Legacy variant of the ConfigParser with interpolation disabled by default and unsafe add_section and set methods. Note Consider using ConfigParser instead which checks types of the values to be stored in

class subprocess.STARTUPINFO Partial support of the Windows STARTUPINFO structure is used for Popen creation. dwFlags A bit field that determines whether certain STARTUPINFO attributes are used when the process creates a window. si = subprocess.STARTUPINFO() si.dwFlags = subprocess.STARTF_USESTDHANDLES | subprocess.STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW hStdInput If dwFlags specifies STARTF_USESTDHANDLES, this attribute is the standard input handle for the process. If STARTF_USESTDHANDLES is not spe

next_plus(context=None) Return the smallest number representable in the given context (or in the current thread’s context if no context is given) that is larger than the given operand.