Operating Systems and System Programming

Python close to the OS.

Advanced

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Create processes (`subprocess`, `multiprocessing`), run threads, and handle OS signals.

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Read CPU, memory, disk, network and process information cross-platform.

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

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Wrap fast native code as Python modules.

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Use `os`, `fcntl`, `mmap`, `inotify` and systemd to build services.

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Manage Docker, LXC and VMs with SDKs (docker, libvirt-python).

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