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 They have been superseded by other modules.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 filesasynchat — Asynchronous socket command/response handler
asyncore — Asynchronous socket handler
audioop — Manipulate raw audio datacgi — Common Gateway Interface support
cgitb — Traceback manager for CGI scriptschunk — Read IFF chunked datacrypt — Function to check Unix passwords
imghdr — Determine the type of an imageimp — Access the import internals
mailcap — Mailcap file handlingmsilib — Read and write Microsoft Installer files
nis — Interface to Sun’s NIS (Yellow Pages)nntplib — NNTP protocol client
optparse — Parser for command line optionsoptparse
ossaudiodev — Access to OSS-compatible audio devices
pipes — Interface to shell pipelines
smtpd — SMTP Server
sndhdr — Determine type of sound filespwd — The shadow password databasesunau — Read and write Sun AU files
telnetlib — Telnet client
uu — Encode and decode uuencode filesxdrlib — Encode and decode XDR data