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Additional File-Processing Modules

There are several other chapters of the Python Library Reference that cover with even more file formats. We'll identify them briefly here.

Chapter 7 - Internet Data Handling. Reading and processing files of Internet data types is very common. Internet data types have formal definitions governed by the internet standards, called Requests for Comment (RFC's). The following modules are for handling Internet data structures. These modules and the related standards are beyond the scope of this book.

email

Helps you handle email MIME attachments.

mailcap

Mailcap file handling.

mailbox

Read various mailbox formats.

mhlib

Manipulate MH mailboxes from Python.

mimetools

Tools for parsing MIME-style message bodies.

mimetypes

Mapping of filename extensions to MIME types.

MimeWriter

Generic MIME file writer.

mimify

Mimification and unmimification of mail messages.

multifile

Support for reading files which contain distinct parts, such as some MIME data.

rfc822

Parse RFC 822 style mail headers.

base64

Encode and decode files using the MIME base64 data.

binhex

Encode and decode files in binhex4 format.

binascii

Tools for converting between binary and various ASCII-encoded binary representations.

quopri

Encode and decode files using the MIME quoted-printable encoding.

uu

Encode and decode files in uuencode format.

Chapter 13 - Data Persistence. Many Python programs will also deal with Python objects that are exported from memory to external files or retrieved from files to memory. Since an external file is more persistent than the volatile working memory of a computer, this process makes an object persistent or retrieves a persistent object. One mechanism for creating a persistent object is called serialization, and is supported by several modules, which are beyond the scope of this book.

pickle

Convert Python objects to streams of bytes and back.

cPickle

Faster version of pickle, but not subclassable.

copy_reg

Register pickle support functions.

shelve

Python object persistence.

marshal

Convert Python objects to streams of bytes and back (with different constraints).

More complex file structures can be processed using the standard modules available with Python. The widely-used DBM database manager is available, plus additional modules are available on the web to provide ODBC access or to connect to a platform-specific database access routine. The following Python modules deal with these kinds of files. These modules are beyond the scope of this book.

anydbm

Generic interface to DBM-style database modules.

whichdb

Guess which DBM-style module created a given database.

dbm

The standard database interface, based on the ndbm library.

gdbm

GNU's reinterpretation of dbm.

dbhash

DBM-style interface to the BSD database library.

bsddb

Interface to Berkeley DB database library

dumbdbm

Portable implementation of the simple DBM interface.

sqlite3

A very pleasant, easy-to-use relational database (RDBMS).


 
 
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