Superseded Modules
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The modules described in this chapter are deprecated and only kept for
backwards compatibility. They have been superseded by other modules.

* "aifc" --- Read and write AIFF and AIFC files

* "audioop" --- Manipulate raw audio data

* "cgi" --- Common Gateway Interface support

* "cgitb" --- Traceback manager for CGI scripts

* "chunk" --- Read IFF chunked data

* "crypt" --- Function to check Unix passwords

* "imghdr" --- Determine the type of an image

* "mailcap" --- Mailcap file handling

* "msilib" --- Read and write Microsoft Installer files

* "nis" --- Interface to Sun's NIS (Yellow Pages)

* "nntplib" --- NNTP protocol client

* "optparse" --- Parser for command line options

* "ossaudiodev" --- Access to OSS-compatible audio devices

* "pipes" --- Interface to shell pipelines

* "sndhdr" --- Determine type of sound file

* "spwd" --- The shadow password database

* "sunau" --- Read and write Sun AU files

* "telnetlib" --- Telnet client

* "uu" --- Encode and decode uuencode files

* "xdrlib" --- Encode and decode XDR data
