Removed Modules¶
The modules described in this chapter have been removed from the Python standard library. They are documented here to help people find replacements.
aifcâ Read and write AIFF and AIFC filesasynchatâ Asynchronous socket command/response handlerasyncoreâ Asynchronous socket handleraudioopâ Manipulate raw audio datacgiâ Common Gateway Interface supportcgitbâ Traceback manager for CGI scriptschunkâ Read IFF chunked datacryptâ Function to check Unix passwordsdistutilsâ Building and installing Python modulesimghdrâ Determine the type of an imageimpâ Access the import internalsmailcapâ Mailcap file handlingmsilibâ Read and write Microsoft Installer filesnisâ Interface to Sunâs NIS (Yellow Pages)nntplibâ NNTP protocol clientossaudiodevâ Access to OSS-compatible audio devicespipesâ Interface to shell pipelinessmtpdâ SMTP Serversndhdrâ Determine type of sound filespwdâ The shadow password databasesunauâ Read and write Sun AU filestelnetlibâ Telnet clientuuâ Encode and decode uuencode filesxdrlibâ Encode and decode XDR data