Preface

"We'd like to pretend that 'Fredrik' is a role, but even hundreds of volunteers couldn't possibly keep up. No, 'Fredrik' is the result of crossing an http server with a spam filter with an emacs whatsit and some other stuff besides."

�Gordon McMillan, June 1998

The Python 2.0 distribution comes with an extensive standard library, comprised of over 200 modules. This book briefly describes each module and provides one or more sample scripts showing how to use it. All in all, this book contains 360 sample scripts.