Packaging, Imports and Code Tools

venv, ensurepip, importlib, ast, dis, tokenize, compileall, platform and ctypes.

Intermediate

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Create isolated environments, and bootstrap pip into them.

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The import system as a library: import by name, reload modules, read package resources and metadata.

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Parse Python source into an Abstract Syntax Tree for analysis or transformation.

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Disassemble bytecode, and split source code into tokens.

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Pre-compile a directory of .py files to bytecode.

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Information about the OS, machine and Python build.

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Call functions in C shared libraries (.dll / .so) directly from Python.

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