effort spent.

\begin{description}

--- Interface to Tcl/Tk for graphical user interfaces;

Fredrik Lundh is working on this one! See \emph{An Introduction to

Tkinter} at \url{http://www.pythonware.com/library/} for on-line

reference material.

--- Drag-and-drop support for \module{Tkinter}.

--- Regression testing framework. This is used for the Python

regression test, but is useful for other Python libraries as well.

This is a package rather than a module.

Some of these are very old and/or not very robust; marked with ``hmm.''

\begin{description}

--- class to build directory diff tools on (may become a demo or tool)

--- A generic Python debugger base class (used by pdb)

--- Import hook support (for \refmodule{rexec}; may become obsolete)

\end{description}

document these.

\begin{description}

--- implementation of \module{os.path} on MS-DOS

--- implementation on \module{os.path} on 32-bit Windows

--- implementation on \module{os.path} on \POSIX{}

\end{description}

\section{Multimedia}

\begin{description}

--- Platform-independent API for playing audio data

--- interpret sun audio headers (may become obsolete or a tool/demo)

--- Convert "arbitrary" sound files to AIFF files; should probably

become a tool or demo. Requires the external program \program{sox}.

\end{description}

\section{Obsolete}

These modules are not on the standard module search path;

possibly using \envvar{PYTHONPATH}.

\begin{description}

--- New \function{dir()} function (the standard \function{dir()} is

now just as good)

--- Extract function name or line number from a function

code object (these are now accessible as attributes:

\member{co.co_name}, \member{func.func_name},

\member{co.co_firstlineno}).

--- Print python code that reconstructs a variable

--- text formatting abstractions (too slow)

--- helper for fmt.py

--- wrapper around FCNTL file locking (use

\function{fcntl.lockf()}/\function{flock()} intead; see \refmodule{fcntl})

--- Polynomials

--- Print tracebacks, with a dump of local variables (use

\function{pdb.pm()} or \refmodule{traceback} instead)

--- Measure time intervals to high resolution (use

\function{time.clock()} instead). (This is an extension module.)

--- Useful functions that don't fit elsewhere.

--- A primitive windowing debugger based on STDWIN.

--- Recognize sound files; use \refmodule{sndhdr} instead.

--- Compute properties of mathematical "fields"

\end{description}

The following modules were documented in previous versions of this

manual, but are now considered obsolete. The source for the

documentation is still available as part of the documentation source

archive.

\begin{description}

--- Import modules in ``packages.'' Basic package support is now

built in.

--- Old interface to the random number generator.

--- Algorithm for collapsing names which sound similar to a shared

key. (This is an extension module.)

\end{description}

\section{Extension modules}

\begin{description}

--- Interface to STDWIN (an old, unsupported

\end{description}

The following are SGI specific, and may be out of touch with the

current version of reality.

\begin{description}

--- Interface to the SGI compression library.

--- Interface to the ``simple video'' board on SGI Indigo

(obsolete hardware).

\end{description}