Python 3.6.5 Documentation >  Utilities

Utilities
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The functions in this chapter perform various utility tasks, ranging
from helping C code be more portable across platforms, using Python
modules from C, and parsing function arguments and constructing Python
values from C values.

* Operating System Utilities

* System Functions

* Process Control

* Importing Modules

* Data marshalling support

* Parsing arguments and building values

* Parsing arguments

* Strings and buffers

* Numbers

* Other objects

* API Functions

* Building values

* String conversion and formatting

* Reflection

* Codec registry and support functions

* Codec lookup API

* Registry API for Unicode encoding error handlers