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Generic Operating System Services

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The modules described in this chapter provide interfaces to operating system

features that are available on (almost) all operating systems, such as files and

a clock.  The interfaces are generally modeled after the Unix or C interfaces,

but they are available on most other systems as well.  Here's an overview:

.. toctree::

   os.rst

   io.rst

   time.rst

   optparse.rst

   getopt.rst

   logging.rst

   getpass.rst

   curses.rst

   curses.ascii.rst

   curses.panel.rst

   platform.rst

   errno.rst

   ctypes.rst