Superseded Modules
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The modules described in this chapter are deprecated and only kept for
backwards compatibility. They have been superseded by other modules.

* "aifc" — Read and write AIFF and AIFC files

* "asynchat" — Asynchronous socket command/response handler

* "asyncore" — Asynchronous socket handler

* "audioop" — Manipulate raw audio data

* "cgi" — Common Gateway Interface support

* "cgitb" — Traceback manager for CGI scripts

* "chunk" — Read IFF chunked data

* "crypt" — Function to check Unix passwords

* "imghdr" — Determine the type of an image

* "imp" — Access the *import* internals

* "mailcap" — Mailcap file handling

* "msilib" — Read and write Microsoft Installer files

* "nis" — Interface to Sun’s NIS (Yellow Pages)

* "nntplib" — NNTP protocol client

* "optparse" — Parser for command line options

* "ossaudiodev" — Access to OSS-compatible audio devices

* "pipes" — Interface to shell pipelines

* "smtpd" — SMTP Server

* "sndhdr" — Determine type of sound file

* "spwd" — The shadow password database

* "sunau" — Read and write Sun AU files

* "telnetlib" — Telnet client

* "uu" — Encode and decode uuencode files

* "xdrlib" — Encode and decode XDR data
