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Lectura-4-The Python Standard Library

The document describes the Python Standard Library, which includes built-in modules for system functionality and Python-written modules for standardized programming solutions. It emphasizes the library's extensiveness and its role in enhancing portability through platform-neutral APIs. Additionally, it mentions the inclusion of the standard library in Python installers for Windows and the use of packaging tools for Unix-like systems to access optional components.

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Lectura-4-The Python Standard Library

The document describes the Python Standard Library, which includes built-in modules for system functionality and Python-written modules for standardized programming solutions. It emphasizes the library's extensiveness and its role in enhancing portability through platform-neutral APIs. Additionally, it mentions the inclusion of the standard library in Python installers for Windows and the use of packaging tools for Unix-like systems to access optional components.

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Lectura 4: The Python Standard Library

While The Python Language Reference describes the exact syntax and
semantics of the Python language, this library reference manual
describes the standard library that is distributed with Python. It also
describes some of the optional components that are commonly
included in Python distributions.

Python’s standard library is very extensive, offering a wide range of


facilities as indicated by the long table of contents listed below. The
library contains built-in modules (written in C) that provide access to
system functionality such as file I/O that would otherwise be
inaccessible to Python programmers, as well as modules written in
Python that provide standardized solutions for many problems that
occur in everyday programming. Some of these modules are explicitly
designed to encourage and enhance the portability of Python programs
by abstracting away platform-specifics into platform-neutral APIs.

The Python installers for the Windows platform usually include the
entire standard library and often also include many additional
components. For Unix-like operating systems Python is normally
provided as a collection of packages, so it may be necessary to use the
packaging tools provided with the operating system to obtain some or
all of the optional components.
In addition to the standard library, there is a growing collection of
several thousand components (from individual programs and modules
to packages and entire application development frameworks), available
from the Python Package Index.

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