Other Library Enhancements

_winreg module

  • Access to the Windows registry.

zipfile

  • Decoding/encoding of PKZIP zip files (common on Windows).

webbrowser

  • Portable API for launching a web browser

Cookie

  • HTTP cookie processing. Useful in CGI programming.

atexit

  • Improved interface for registering cleanup actions for program termination
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