.. _development:

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Development Tools

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The modules described in this chapter help you write software.  For example, the

:mod:`pydoc` module takes a module and generates documentation based on the

module's contents.  The :mod:`doctest` and :mod:`unittest` modules contains

frameworks for writing unit tests that automatically exercise code and verify

that the expected output is produced.  :program:`2to3` can translate Python 2.x

source code into valid Python 3.x code.

The list of modules described in this chapter is:

.. toctree::

   pydoc.rst

   doctest.rst

   unittest.rst

   2to3.rst

   test.rst