These modules are not on the standard module search path;
but are available in the directory lib-old/ installed under
$prefix/lib/python1.5/. To use any of these modules, add that directory to sys.path,
possibly using $PYTHONPATH.
newdir
-- New dir() function (the standard dir() is
now just as good)
addpack
-- alternate approach to packages
codehack
-- Extract function name or line number from a function
code object (these are now accessible as attributes:
co.co_name, func.func_name,
co.co_firstlineno).
dump
-- Print python code that reconstructs a variable
fmt
-- text formatting abstractions (too slow)
Para
-- helper for fmt.py
lockfile
-- wrapper around FCNTL file locking (use
fcntl.lockf()/flock() intead; see fcntl)
poly
-- Polynomials
tb
-- Print tracebacks, with a dump of local variables (use
pdb.pm() or traceback instead)
timing
-- Measure time intervals to high resolution (use
time.clock() instead). (This is an extension module.)
util
-- Useful functions that don't fit elsewhere.
wdb
-- A primitive windowing debugger based on STDWIN.
The following modules are obsolete, but are likely re-surface as tools
or scripts.
find
-- find files matching pattern in directory tree
grep
-- grep
packmail
-- create a self-unpacking Unix shell archive
The following modules were documented in previous versions of this
manual, but are now considered obsolete. The source for the
documentation is still available as part of the documentation source
archive.
ni
-- Import modules in ``packages.'' Basic package support is now
built in.
rand
-- Old interface to the random number generator.
soundex
-- Algorithm for collapsing names which sound similar to a shared
key. (This is an extension module.)
