The most important modules

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <Pine.GSO.4.21.0103191732210.22234-100000 at laplace>,
Martyn Quick  <mrq at for.mat.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>I've seen a few comments along the lines of "When you are a newbie it will
>take a while to realize which the important modules are."  As someone who
>is in the middle of wading through Chapter 3 of the Library Reference, it
>would be very helpful to know which ones are particularly worth
>noting.  (Presumably  sys, (c)Pickle and shelve, from the ones I've so far
>in the chapter - but what other treats are out there for me?)

Here's my list:

sys
string
re
os
os.path
shutil
zlib/gzip/zipfile
urllib
md5
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