16. Optional Operating System Services

The modules described in this chapter provide interfaces to operating system features that are available on selected operating systems only. The interfaces are generally modeled after the Unix or C interfaces but they are available on some other systems as well (e.g. Windows or NT). Here’s an overview:

• 16.1. select — Waiting for I/O completion
  • 16.1.1. Edge and Level Trigger Polling (epoll) Objects
  • 16.1.2. Polling Objects
  • 16.1.3. Kqueue Objects
  • 16.1.4. Kevent Objects
• 16.2. threading — Higher-level threading interface
  • 16.2.1. Thread Objects
  • 16.2.2. Lock Objects
  • 16.2.3. RLock Objects
  • 16.2.4. Condition Objects
  • 16.2.5. Semaphore Objects
    • 16.2.5.1. Exemplo Semaphore
  • 16.2.6. Event Objects
  • 16.2.7. Timer Objects
  • 16.2.8. Using locks, conditions, and semaphores in the with statement
  • 16.2.9. Importing in threaded code
• 16.3. thread — Multiple threads of control
• 16.4. dummy_threading — Substituição drop-in para o módulo threading
• 16.5. dummy_thread — Drop-in replacement for the thread module
• 16.6. multiprocessing — Process-based “threading” interface
  • 16.6.1. Introdução
    • 16.6.1.1. A classe Process
    • 16.6.1.2. Exchanging objects between processes
    • 16.6.1.3. Sincronização entre processos
    • 16.6.1.4. Sharing state between processes
    • 16.6.1.5. Using a pool of workers
  • 16.6.2. Referência
    • 16.6.2.1. Process and exceptions
    • 16.6.2.2. Pipes and Queues
    • 16.6.2.3. Diversos
    • 16.6.2.4. Connection Objects
    • 16.6.2.5. Synchronization primitives
    • 16.6.2.6. Shared ctypes Objects
      • 16.6.2.6.1. The multiprocessing.sharedctypes module
    • 16.6.2.7. Gerenciadores
      • 16.6.2.7.1. Customized managers
      • 16.6.2.7.2. Using a remote manager
    • 16.6.2.8. Proxy Objects
      • 16.6.2.8.1. Cleanup
    • 16.6.2.9. Process Pools
    • 16.6.2.10. Listeners and Clients
      • 16.6.2.10.1. Address Formats
    • 16.6.2.11. Authentication keys
    • 16.6.2.12. Gerando logs
    • 16.6.2.13. The multiprocessing.dummy module
  • 16.6.3. Programming guidelines
    • 16.6.3.1. All platforms
    • 16.6.3.2. Windows
  • 16.6.4. Exemplos
• 16.7. mmap — Suporte a arquivos com memória mapeada
• 16.8. readline — GNU readline interface
  • 16.8.1. Init file
  • 16.8.2. Line buffer
  • 16.8.3. History file
  • 16.8.4. History list
  • 16.8.5. Startup hooks
  • 16.8.6. Completion
  • 16.8.7. Exemplo
• 16.9. rlcompleter — Completion function for GNU readline
  • 16.9.1. Completer Objects