Python Built-in Modules: Exploring Integrated Functionalities
Discover the built-in modules in Python that extend the language's capabilities beyond its core features. These modules, written in C, provide system-specific functionalities for OS management, I/O operations, and more. Explore a list of key built-in modules and their uses.
Python - Built-in Modules
The Python interactive shell includes a number of built-in modules that provide additional functionalities beyond the basic Python language features.
These modules are written in C and integrated with Python, offering system-specific functionalities like OS management, IO operations, and more. Here's a list of some built-in modules:
IPython _weakrefset heapq secrets
__future__ _winapi hmac select
_abc abc html selectors
_ast aifc http setuptools
_asyncio antigravity idlelib shelve
_bisect argparse imaplib shlex
_blake2 array imghdr shutil
_bootlocale ast imp signal
_bz2 asynchat importlib simplegeneric
_codecs asyncio ind site
_codecs_cn asyncore inspect six
_codecs_hk atexit io smtpd
_codecs_iso2022 audioop ipaddress smtplib
_codecs_jp autoreload ipython_genutils sndhdr
_codecs_kr backcall itertools socket
_codecs_tw base64 jedi socketserver
_collections bdb json sqlite3
_collections_abc binascii keyword sre_compile
_compat_pickle binhex lib2to3 sre_constants
_compression bisect linecache sre_parse
_contextvars builtins locale ssl
_csv bz2 logging stat
_ctypes cProfile lzma statistics
_ctypes_test calendar macpath storemagic
_datetime cgi mailbox string
_decimal cgitb mailcap stringprep
_distutils_findvs chunk marshal struct
_dummy_thread cmath math subprocess
_elementtree cmd mimetypes sunau
_functools code mmap symbol
_hashlib codecs modulefinder sympyprinting
_heapq codeop msilib symtable
_imp collections msvcrt sys
_io colorama multiprocessing sysconfig
_json colorsys netrc tabnanny
_locale compileall nntplib tarfile
_lsprof concurrent nt telnetlib
_lzma configparser ntpath tempfile
_markupbase contextlib nturl2path test
_md5 contextvars numbers tests
_msi copy opcode textwrap
_multibytecodec copyreg operator this
_multiprocessing crypt optparse threading
_opcode csv os time
_operator ctypes parser timeit
_osx_support curses parso tkinter
_overlapped cythonmagic pathlib token
_pickle dataclasses pdb tokenize
_py_abc datetime pickle trace
_pydecimal dbm pickleshare traceback
_pyio decimal pickletools tracemalloc
_queue decorator pip traitlets
_random difflib pipes tty
_sha1 dis pkg_resources turtle
_sha256 distutils pkgutil turtledemo
_sha3 doctest platform types
_sha512 dummy_threading plistlib typing
_signal easy_install poplib unicodedata
_sitebuiltins email posixpath unittest
_socket encodings pprint urllib
_sqlite3 ensurepip profile uu
_sre enum prompt_toolkit uuid
_ssl errno pstats venv
_stat faulthandler pty warnings
_string filecmp py_compile wave
_strptime fileinput pyclbr wcwidth
_struct fnmatch pydoc weakref
_symtable formatter pydoc_data webbrowser
_testbuffer fractions pyexpat winreg
_testcapi ftplib pygments winsound
_testconsole functools queue wsgiref
_testimportmultiple gc quopri xdrlib
_testmultiphase genericpath random xml
_thread getopt re xmlrpc
_threading_local getpass reprlib xxsubtype
_tkinter gettext rlcompleter zipapp
_tracemalloc glob rmagic zipfile
_warnings gzip runpy zipimport
_weakref hashlib sched zlib
For a complete list of available modules in your Python environment, use the following command in the Python console:
help('modules')
These built-in modules are part of the standard library and provide extensive utilities for various programming tasks.
| Name | Brief Description |
|---|---|
| os | This module provides a unified interface to a number of operating system functions. |
| string | This module contains a number of functions for string processing. |
| re | This module provides a set of powerful regular expression facilities. Regular expression (RegEx) allows powerful string search and matching for a pattern in a string. |
| math | This module implements a number of mathematical operations for floating point numbers. These functions are generally thin wrappers around the platform C library functions. |
| cmath | This module contains a number of mathematical operations for complex numbers. |
| datetime | This module provides functions to deal with dates and the time within a day. It wraps the C runtime library. |
| gc | This module provides an interface to the built-in garbage collector. |
| asyncio | This module defines functionality required for asynchronous processing. |
| Collections | This module provides advanced Container datatypes. |
| Functools | This module has Higher-order functions and operations on callable objects. Useful in functional programming. |
| operator | Functions corresponding to the standard operators. |
| pickle | Convert Python objects to streams of bytes and back. |
| socket | Low-level networking interface. |
| sqlite3 | A DB-API 2.0 implementation using SQLite 3.x. |
| statistics | Mathematical statistics functions. |
| typing | Support for type hints. |
| venv | Creation of virtual environments. |
| json | Encode and decode the JSON format. |
| wsgiref | WSGI Utilities and Reference Implementation. |
| unittest | Unit testing framework for Python. |
| random | Generate pseudo-random numbers. |
These built-in modules offer a wide range of functionalities from basic string operations and regular expressions to advanced mathematical computations, database interactions, and asynchronous programming support.