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.
aifc— Read and write AIFF and AIFC filesasynchat— Asynchronous socket command/response handlerasyncore— Asynchronous socket handleraudioop— Manipulate raw audio datacgi— Common Gateway Interface supportcgitb— Traceback manager for CGI scriptschunk— Read IFF chunked datacrypt— Function to check Unix passwordsdistutils— Building and installing Python modulesimghdr— Determine the type of an imageimp— Access the import internalsmailcap— Mailcap file handlingmsilib— Read and write Microsoft Installer filesnis— Interface to Sun’s NIS (Yellow Pages)nntplib— NNTP protocol clientossaudiodev— Access to OSS-compatible audio devicespipes— Interface to shell pipelinessmtpd— SMTP Serversndhdr— Determine type of sound filespwd— The shadow password databasesunau— Read and write Sun AU filestelnetlib— Telnet clientuu— Encode and decode uuencode filesxdrlib— Encode and decode XDR data