The modules described in this chapter provide interfaces to features
that are unique to the operating system, or in some cases to
some or many variants of it. Here's an overview:
- posix
- — The most common Posix system calls (normally used via module os).
- posixpath
- — Common Posix pathname manipulations (normally used via os.path).
- pwd
- — The password database (getpwnam() and friends).
- grp
- — The group database (getgrnam() and friends).
- dbm
- — The standard ``database'' interface, based on ndbm.
- gdbm
- — GNU's reinterpretation of dbm.
- termios
- — Posix style tty control.
- fcntl
- — The fcntl() and ioctl() system calls.
- posixfile
- — A file-like object with support for locking.