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     2 .. _someos:

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     5 Optional Operating System Services

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     8 The modules described in this chapter provide interfaces to operating system

     9 features that are available on selected operating systems only. The interfaces

    10 are generally modeled after the Unix or C interfaces but they are available on

    11 some other systems as well (e.g. Windows or NT).  Here's an overview:

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    14 .. toctree::

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    16    select.rst

    17    threading.rst

    18    thread.rst

    19    dummy_threading.rst

    20    dummy_thread.rst

    21    multiprocessing.rst

    22    mmap.rst

    23    readline.rst

    24    rlcompleter.rst