Doug Hellmann

PyMOTW: codecs - String encoding and decoding

2010-08-29T12:51:00.001-04:00

The codecs module provides stream and file interfaces for
transcoding data in your program. It is most commonly used to work
with Unicode text, but other encodings are also available for other
purposes.

PyMOTW: math - Mathematical functions

2010-08-22T07:45:00.001-04:00

The math module implements many of the IEEE functions that would
normally be found in the native platform C libraries for complex
mathematical operations using floating point values, including
logarithms and trigonometric operations.

PyMOTW: doctest - Testing through documentation

2010-08-15T11:51:00.001-04:00

doctest lets you test your code by running examples embedded in
the documentation and verifying that they produce the expected
results. It works by parsing the help text to find examples, running
them, then comparing the output text against the expected value. Many
developers find doctest easier than unittest because in
its simplest form, there is no API to learn before using it. However,
as the examples become more complex the lack of fixture management can
make writing doctest tests more cumbersome than using
unittest.