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5. Miscellaneous Services

The modules described in this chapter provide miscellaneous services that are available in all Python versions. Here's an overview:

`math` | Mathematical functions (`sin()` etc.).
`cmath` | Mathematical functions for complex numbers.
`random` | Generate pseudo-random numbers with various common distributions.
`whrandom` | Floating point pseudo-random number generator.
`bisect` | Array bisection algorithms for binary searching.
`array` | Efficient arrays of uniformly typed numeric values.
`ConfigParser` | Configuration file parser.
`fileinput` | Perl-like iteration over lines from multiple input streams, with ``save in place'' capability.
`calendar` | General functions for working with the calendar, including some emulation of the Unix cal program.
`cmd` | Build line-oriented command interpreters; this is used by module `pdb`.
`shlex` | Simple lexical analysis for Unix shell-like languages.