Optional Operating System Services

The modules described in this chapter provide interfaces to operating system features that are available on selected operating systems only. The interfaces are generally modeled after the Unix or C interfaces but they are available on some other systems as well (e.g. Windows or NT). Here's an overview:

.. toctree::

   select.rst
   threading.rst
   thread.rst
   dummy_threading.rst
   dummy_thread.rst
   multiprocessing.rst
   mmap.rst
   readline.rst
   rlcompleter.rst