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| 62 | The modules described in this chapter provide miscellaneous services | |
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| 73 | <td class='synopsis'>A framework for verifying interactive Python examples.</td></tr> | |
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| 75 | <td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-unittest.html'>unittest</a></tt></b></td> | |
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| 77 | <td class='synopsis'>Unit testing framework for Python.</td></tr> | |
| 78 | <tr><td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-test.html'>test</a></tt></b></td> | |
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| 80 | <td class='synopsis'>Regression tests package containing the testing suite | |
| 81 | for Python.</td></tr> | |
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| 85 | <td class='synopsis'>Support for Python regression tests.</td></tr> | |
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| 88 | <td class='synopsis'>Implementation of the General Decimal Arithmetic | |
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| 100 | <td class='synopsis'>Generate pseudo-random numbers with various common | |
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| 104 | <td class='synopsis'>Floating point pseudo-random number generator.</td></tr> | |
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| 118 | <td class='synopsis'>Efficient arrays of uniformly typed numeric values.</td></tr> | |
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| 122 | <td class='synopsis'>Implementation of sets of unique elements.</td></tr> | |
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| 125 | <td class='synopsis'>Functions creating iterators for efficient looping.</td></tr> | |
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| 132 | <td class='synopsis'>Perl-like iteration over lines from multiple input | |
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| 137 | <td class='synopsis'>Functions for working with calendars, | |
| 138 | including some emulation of the <span class="Unix">Unix</span> <b class="program">cal</b> | |
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| 142 | <td class='synopsis'>Build line-oriented command interpreters.</td></tr> | |
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| 146 | <td class='synopsis'>Simple lexical analysis for <span class="Unix">Unix</span> shell-like languages.</td></tr> | |
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