Operating System Services
Python provides a wide variety of operating system interfaces
Basic system calls
Operating environment
Processes
Timers
Signal handling
Error reporting
Users and passwords
Implementation
A large portion of this functionality is contained in the os module.
The interface is based on POSIX.
Not all functions are available on all platforms (especially Windows/Mac).
Let's take a tour...
I'm not going to cover everything.
This is mostly a survey of what Python provides.
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