[Tutor] Python Lib Files

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Mon Dec 15 14:53:19 CET 2008


On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 9:49 AM,  <btkuhn at email.unc.edu> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I discovered yesterday that the Python package has a number of built in
> example scripts in the /lib directory. Perhaps this is common knowledge but
> I did not know about it. I can't seem to find any kind of guide to the
> files, though. Is there a readme somewhere that someone can point me to, or
> perhaps documentation for the files online? I cant find anything on the
> python.org site. This is for version 2.5.

Those are not sample scripts, they are the standard library. There is
extensive documentation, for example
http://docs.python.org/library/
or for Python 2.5 see
http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/lib.html

Kent


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