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msilib.schema This is the standard MSI schema for MSI 2.0, with the tables variable providing a list of table definitions, and _Validation_records providing the data for MSI validation.
python.library.msilib#msilib.schema
msilib.sequence This module contains table contents for the standard sequence tables: AdminExecuteSequence, AdminUISequence, AdvtExecuteSequence, InstallExecuteSequence, and InstallUISequence.
python.library.msilib#msilib.sequence
SummaryInformation.GetProperty(field) Return a property of the summary, through MsiSummaryInfoGetProperty(). field is the name of the property, and can be one of the constants PID_CODEPAGE, PID_TITLE, PID_SUBJECT, PID_AUTHOR, PID_KEYWORDS, PID_COMMENTS, PID_TEMPLATE, PID_LASTAUTHOR, PID_REVNUMBER, PID_LASTPRINTED, PI...
python.library.msilib#msilib.SummaryInformation.GetProperty
SummaryInformation.GetPropertyCount() Return the number of summary properties, through MsiSummaryInfoGetPropertyCount().
python.library.msilib#msilib.SummaryInformation.GetPropertyCount
SummaryInformation.Persist() Write the modified properties to the summary information stream, using MsiSummaryInfoPersist().
python.library.msilib#msilib.SummaryInformation.Persist
SummaryInformation.SetProperty(field, value) Set a property through MsiSummaryInfoSetProperty(). field can have the same values as in GetProperty(), value is the new value of the property. Possible value types are integer and string.
python.library.msilib#msilib.SummaryInformation.SetProperty
msilib.text This module contains definitions for the UIText and ActionText tables, for the standard installer actions.
python.library.msilib#msilib.text
msilib.UuidCreate() Return the string representation of a new unique identifier. This wraps the Windows API functions UuidCreate() and UuidToString().
python.library.msilib#msilib.UuidCreate
View.Close() Close the view, through MsiViewClose().
python.library.msilib#msilib.View.Close
View.Execute(params) Execute the SQL query of the view, through MSIViewExecute(). If params is not None, it is a record describing actual values of the parameter tokens in the query.
python.library.msilib#msilib.View.Execute
View.Fetch() Return a result record of the query, through calling MsiViewFetch().
python.library.msilib#msilib.View.Fetch
View.GetColumnInfo(kind) Return a record describing the columns of the view, through calling MsiViewGetColumnInfo(). kind can be either MSICOLINFO_NAMES or MSICOLINFO_TYPES.
python.library.msilib#msilib.View.GetColumnInfo
View.Modify(kind, data) Modify the view, by calling MsiViewModify(). kind can be one of MSIMODIFY_SEEK, MSIMODIFY_REFRESH, MSIMODIFY_INSERT, MSIMODIFY_UPDATE, MSIMODIFY_ASSIGN, MSIMODIFY_REPLACE, MSIMODIFY_MERGE, MSIMODIFY_DELETE, MSIMODIFY_INSERT_TEMPORARY, MSIMODIFY_VALIDATE, MSIMODIFY_VALIDATE_NEW, MSIMODIFY_VALID...
python.library.msilib#msilib.View.Modify
msvcrt — Useful routines from the MS VC++ runtime These functions provide access to some useful capabilities on Windows platforms. Some higher-level modules use these functions to build the Windows implementations of their services. For example, the getpass module uses this in the implementation of the getpass() functi...
python.library.msvcrt
msvcrt.getch() Read a keypress and return the resulting character as a byte string. Nothing is echoed to the console. This call will block if a keypress is not already available, but will not wait for Enter to be pressed. If the pressed key was a special function key, this will return '\000' or '\xe0'; the next call ...
python.library.msvcrt#msvcrt.getch
msvcrt.getche() Similar to getch(), but the keypress will be echoed if it represents a printable character.
python.library.msvcrt#msvcrt.getche
msvcrt.getwch() Wide char variant of getch(), returning a Unicode value.
python.library.msvcrt#msvcrt.getwch
msvcrt.getwche() Wide char variant of getche(), returning a Unicode value.
python.library.msvcrt#msvcrt.getwche
msvcrt.get_osfhandle(fd) Return the file handle for the file descriptor fd. Raises OSError if fd is not recognized. Raises an auditing event msvcrt.get_osfhandle with argument fd.
python.library.msvcrt#msvcrt.get_osfhandle
msvcrt.heapmin() Force the malloc() heap to clean itself up and return unused blocks to the operating system. On failure, this raises OSError.
python.library.msvcrt#msvcrt.heapmin
msvcrt.kbhit() Return True if a keypress is waiting to be read.
python.library.msvcrt#msvcrt.kbhit
msvcrt.LK_LOCK msvcrt.LK_RLCK Locks the specified bytes. If the bytes cannot be locked, the program immediately tries again after 1 second. If, after 10 attempts, the bytes cannot be locked, OSError is raised.
python.library.msvcrt#msvcrt.LK_LOCK
msvcrt.LK_NBLCK msvcrt.LK_NBRLCK Locks the specified bytes. If the bytes cannot be locked, OSError is raised.
python.library.msvcrt#msvcrt.LK_NBLCK
msvcrt.LK_NBLCK msvcrt.LK_NBRLCK Locks the specified bytes. If the bytes cannot be locked, OSError is raised.
python.library.msvcrt#msvcrt.LK_NBRLCK
msvcrt.LK_LOCK msvcrt.LK_RLCK Locks the specified bytes. If the bytes cannot be locked, the program immediately tries again after 1 second. If, after 10 attempts, the bytes cannot be locked, OSError is raised.
python.library.msvcrt#msvcrt.LK_RLCK
msvcrt.LK_UNLCK Unlocks the specified bytes, which must have been previously locked.
python.library.msvcrt#msvcrt.LK_UNLCK
msvcrt.locking(fd, mode, nbytes) Lock part of a file based on file descriptor fd from the C runtime. Raises OSError on failure. The locked region of the file extends from the current file position for nbytes bytes, and may continue beyond the end of the file. mode must be one of the LK_* constants listed below. Multi...
python.library.msvcrt#msvcrt.locking
msvcrt.open_osfhandle(handle, flags) Create a C runtime file descriptor from the file handle handle. The flags parameter should be a bitwise OR of os.O_APPEND, os.O_RDONLY, and os.O_TEXT. The returned file descriptor may be used as a parameter to os.fdopen() to create a file object. Raises an auditing event msvcrt.op...
python.library.msvcrt#msvcrt.open_osfhandle
msvcrt.putch(char) Print the byte string char to the console without buffering.
python.library.msvcrt#msvcrt.putch
msvcrt.putwch(unicode_char) Wide char variant of putch(), accepting a Unicode value.
python.library.msvcrt#msvcrt.putwch
msvcrt.setmode(fd, flags) Set the line-end translation mode for the file descriptor fd. To set it to text mode, flags should be os.O_TEXT; for binary, it should be os.O_BINARY.
python.library.msvcrt#msvcrt.setmode
msvcrt.ungetch(char) Cause the byte string char to be “pushed back” into the console buffer; it will be the next character read by getch() or getche().
python.library.msvcrt#msvcrt.ungetch
msvcrt.ungetwch(unicode_char) Wide char variant of ungetch(), accepting a Unicode value.
python.library.msvcrt#msvcrt.ungetwch
multiprocessing — Process-based parallelism Source code: Lib/multiprocessing/ Introduction multiprocessing is a package that supports spawning processes using an API similar to the threading module. The multiprocessing package offers both local and remote concurrency, effectively side-stepping the Global Interpreter Lo...
python.library.multiprocessing
multiprocessing.active_children() Return list of all live children of the current process. Calling this has the side effect of “joining” any processes which have already finished.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.active_children
multiprocessing.Array(typecode_or_type, size_or_initializer, *, lock=True) Return a ctypes array allocated from shared memory. By default the return value is actually a synchronized wrapper for the array. typecode_or_type determines the type of the elements of the returned array: it is either a ctypes type or a one c...
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.Array
exception multiprocessing.AuthenticationError Raised when there is an authentication error.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.AuthenticationError
class multiprocessing.Barrier(parties[, action[, timeout]]) A barrier object: a clone of threading.Barrier. New in version 3.3.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.Barrier
class multiprocessing.BoundedSemaphore([value]) A bounded semaphore object: a close analog of threading.BoundedSemaphore. A solitary difference from its close analog exists: its acquire method’s first argument is named block, as is consistent with Lock.acquire(). Note On Mac OS X, this is indistinguishable from Sema...
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.BoundedSemaphore
exception multiprocessing.BufferTooShort Exception raised by Connection.recv_bytes_into() when the supplied buffer object is too small for the message read. If e is an instance of BufferTooShort then e.args[0] will give the message as a byte string.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.BufferTooShort
class multiprocessing.Condition([lock]) A condition variable: an alias for threading.Condition. If lock is specified then it should be a Lock or RLock object from multiprocessing. Changed in version 3.3: The wait_for() method was added.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.Condition
multiprocessing.connection.answer_challenge(connection, authkey) Receive a message, calculate the digest of the message using authkey as the key, and then send the digest back. If a welcome message is not received, then AuthenticationError is raised.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.connection.answer_challenge
multiprocessing.connection.Client(address[, family[, authkey]]) Attempt to set up a connection to the listener which is using address address, returning a Connection. The type of the connection is determined by family argument, but this can generally be omitted since it can usually be inferred from the format of addr...
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.connection.Client
class multiprocessing.connection.Connection send(obj) Send an object to the other end of the connection which should be read using recv(). The object must be picklable. Very large pickles (approximately 32 MiB+, though it depends on the OS) may raise a ValueError exception. recv() Return an object sent from...
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.connection.Connection
close() Close the connection. This is called automatically when the connection is garbage collected.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.connection.Connection.close
fileno() Return the file descriptor or handle used by the connection.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.connection.Connection.fileno
poll([timeout]) Return whether there is any data available to be read. If timeout is not specified then it will return immediately. If timeout is a number then this specifies the maximum time in seconds to block. If timeout is None then an infinite timeout is used. Note that multiple connection objects may be polled ...
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.connection.Connection.poll
recv() Return an object sent from the other end of the connection using send(). Blocks until there is something to receive. Raises EOFError if there is nothing left to receive and the other end was closed.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.connection.Connection.recv
recv_bytes([maxlength]) Return a complete message of byte data sent from the other end of the connection as a string. Blocks until there is something to receive. Raises EOFError if there is nothing left to receive and the other end has closed. If maxlength is specified and the message is longer than maxlength then OS...
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.connection.Connection.recv_bytes
recv_bytes_into(buffer[, offset]) Read into buffer a complete message of byte data sent from the other end of the connection and return the number of bytes in the message. Blocks until there is something to receive. Raises EOFError if there is nothing left to receive and the other end was closed. buffer must be a wri...
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.connection.Connection.recv_bytes_into
send(obj) Send an object to the other end of the connection which should be read using recv(). The object must be picklable. Very large pickles (approximately 32 MiB+, though it depends on the OS) may raise a ValueError exception.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.connection.Connection.send
send_bytes(buffer[, offset[, size]]) Send byte data from a bytes-like object as a complete message. If offset is given then data is read from that position in buffer. If size is given then that many bytes will be read from buffer. Very large buffers (approximately 32 MiB+, though it depends on the OS) may raise a Val...
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.connection.Connection.send_bytes
multiprocessing.connection.deliver_challenge(connection, authkey) Send a randomly generated message to the other end of the connection and wait for a reply. If the reply matches the digest of the message using authkey as the key then a welcome message is sent to the other end of the connection. Otherwise Authenticati...
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.connection.deliver_challenge
class multiprocessing.connection.Listener([address[, family[, backlog[, authkey]]]]) A wrapper for a bound socket or Windows named pipe which is ‘listening’ for connections. address is the address to be used by the bound socket or named pipe of the listener object. Note If an address of ‘0.0.0.0’ is used, the addres...
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.connection.Listener
accept() Accept a connection on the bound socket or named pipe of the listener object and return a Connection object. If authentication is attempted and fails, then AuthenticationError is raised.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.connection.Listener.accept
address The address which is being used by the Listener object.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.connection.Listener.address
close() Close the bound socket or named pipe of the listener object. This is called automatically when the listener is garbage collected. However it is advisable to call it explicitly.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.connection.Listener.close
last_accepted The address from which the last accepted connection came. If this is unavailable then it is None.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.connection.Listener.last_accepted
multiprocessing.connection.wait(object_list, timeout=None) Wait till an object in object_list is ready. Returns the list of those objects in object_list which are ready. If timeout is a float then the call blocks for at most that many seconds. If timeout is None then it will block for an unlimited period. A negative ...
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.connection.wait
multiprocessing.cpu_count() Return the number of CPUs in the system. This number is not equivalent to the number of CPUs the current process can use. The number of usable CPUs can be obtained with len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)) May raise NotImplementedError. See also os.cpu_count()
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.cpu_count
multiprocessing.current_process() Return the Process object corresponding to the current process. An analogue of threading.current_thread().
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.current_process
class multiprocessing.Event A clone of threading.Event.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.Event
multiprocessing.freeze_support() Add support for when a program which uses multiprocessing has been frozen to produce a Windows executable. (Has been tested with py2exe, PyInstaller and cx_Freeze.) One needs to call this function straight after the if __name__ == '__main__' line of the main module. For example: from ...
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.freeze_support
multiprocessing.get_all_start_methods() Returns a list of the supported start methods, the first of which is the default. The possible start methods are 'fork', 'spawn' and 'forkserver'. On Windows only 'spawn' is available. On Unix 'fork' and 'spawn' are always supported, with 'fork' being the default. New in versi...
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.get_all_start_methods
multiprocessing.get_context(method=None) Return a context object which has the same attributes as the multiprocessing module. If method is None then the default context is returned. Otherwise method should be 'fork', 'spawn', 'forkserver'. ValueError is raised if the specified start method is not available. New in v...
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.get_context
multiprocessing.get_logger() Returns the logger used by multiprocessing. If necessary, a new one will be created. When first created the logger has level logging.NOTSET and no default handler. Messages sent to this logger will not by default propagate to the root logger. Note that on Windows child processes will only...
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.get_logger
multiprocessing.get_start_method(allow_none=False) Return the name of start method used for starting processes. If the start method has not been fixed and allow_none is false, then the start method is fixed to the default and the name is returned. If the start method has not been fixed and allow_none is true then Non...
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.get_start_method
class multiprocessing.JoinableQueue([maxsize]) JoinableQueue, a Queue subclass, is a queue which additionally has task_done() and join() methods. task_done() Indicate that a formerly enqueued task is complete. Used by queue consumers. For each get() used to fetch a task, a subsequent call to task_done() tells the...
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.JoinableQueue
join() Block until all items in the queue have been gotten and processed. The count of unfinished tasks goes up whenever an item is added to the queue. The count goes down whenever a consumer calls task_done() to indicate that the item was retrieved and all work on it is complete. When the count of unfinished tasks d...
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.join
task_done() Indicate that a formerly enqueued task is complete. Used by queue consumers. For each get() used to fetch a task, a subsequent call to task_done() tells the queue that the processing on the task is complete. If a join() is currently blocking, it will resume when all items have been processed (meaning that...
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.task_done
class multiprocessing.Lock A non-recursive lock object: a close analog of threading.Lock. Once a process or thread has acquired a lock, subsequent attempts to acquire it from any process or thread will block until it is released; any process or thread may release it. The concepts and behaviors of threading.Lock as it...
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.Lock
acquire(block=True, timeout=None) Acquire a lock, blocking or non-blocking. With the block argument set to True (the default), the method call will block until the lock is in an unlocked state, then set it to locked and return True. Note that the name of this first argument differs from that in threading.Lock.acquire...
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.Lock.acquire
release() Release a lock. This can be called from any process or thread, not only the process or thread which originally acquired the lock. Behavior is the same as in threading.Lock.release() except that when invoked on an unlocked lock, a ValueError is raised.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.Lock.release
multiprocessing.log_to_stderr() This function performs a call to get_logger() but in addition to returning the logger created by get_logger, it adds a handler which sends output to sys.stderr using format '[%(levelname)s/%(processName)s] %(message)s'.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.log_to_stderr
class multiprocessing.managers.BaseManager([address[, authkey]]) Create a BaseManager object. Once created one should call start() or get_server().serve_forever() to ensure that the manager object refers to a started manager process. address is the address on which the manager process listens for new connections. If ...
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.managers.BaseManager
address The address used by the manager.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.managers.BaseManager.address
connect() Connect a local manager object to a remote manager process: >>> from multiprocessing.managers import BaseManager >>> m = BaseManager(address=('127.0.0.1', 50000), authkey=b'abc') >>> m.connect()
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.managers.BaseManager.connect
get_server() Returns a Server object which represents the actual server under the control of the Manager. The Server object supports the serve_forever() method: >>> from multiprocessing.managers import BaseManager >>> manager = BaseManager(address=('', 50000), authkey=b'abc') >>> server = manager.get_server() >>> ser...
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.managers.BaseManager.get_server
register(typeid[, callable[, proxytype[, exposed[, method_to_typeid[, create_method]]]]]) A classmethod which can be used for registering a type or callable with the manager class. typeid is a “type identifier” which is used to identify a particular type of shared object. This must be a string. callable is a callable...
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.managers.BaseManager.register
shutdown() Stop the process used by the manager. This is only available if start() has been used to start the server process. This can be called multiple times.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.managers.BaseManager.shutdown
start([initializer[, initargs]]) Start a subprocess to start the manager. If initializer is not None then the subprocess will call initializer(*initargs) when it starts.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.managers.BaseManager.start
class multiprocessing.managers.BaseProxy Proxy objects are instances of subclasses of BaseProxy. _callmethod(methodname[, args[, kwds]]) Call and return the result of a method of the proxy’s referent. If proxy is a proxy whose referent is obj then the expression proxy._callmethod(methodname, args, kwds) will eva...
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.managers.BaseProxy
_callmethod(methodname[, args[, kwds]]) Call and return the result of a method of the proxy’s referent. If proxy is a proxy whose referent is obj then the expression proxy._callmethod(methodname, args, kwds) will evaluate the expression getattr(obj, methodname)(*args, **kwds) in the manager’s process. The returned ...
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.managers.BaseProxy._callmethod
_getvalue() Return a copy of the referent. If the referent is unpicklable then this will raise an exception.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.managers.BaseProxy._getvalue
__repr__() Return a representation of the proxy object.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.managers.BaseProxy.__repr__
__str__() Return the representation of the referent.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.managers.BaseProxy.__str__
class multiprocessing.managers.Namespace A type that can register with SyncManager. A namespace object has no public methods, but does have writable attributes. Its representation shows the values of its attributes. However, when using a proxy for a namespace object, an attribute beginning with '_' will be an attribu...
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.managers.Namespace
class multiprocessing.managers.SharedMemoryManager([address[, authkey]]) A subclass of BaseManager which can be used for the management of shared memory blocks across processes. A call to start() on a SharedMemoryManager instance causes a new process to be started. This new process’s sole purpose is to manage the lif...
python.library.multiprocessing.shared_memory#multiprocessing.managers.SharedMemoryManager
ShareableList(sequence) Create and return a new ShareableList object, initialized by the values from the input sequence.
python.library.multiprocessing.shared_memory#multiprocessing.managers.SharedMemoryManager.ShareableList
SharedMemory(size) Create and return a new SharedMemory object with the specified size in bytes.
python.library.multiprocessing.shared_memory#multiprocessing.managers.SharedMemoryManager.SharedMemory
class multiprocessing.managers.SyncManager A subclass of BaseManager which can be used for the synchronization of processes. Objects of this type are returned by multiprocessing.Manager(). Its methods create and return Proxy Objects for a number of commonly used data types to be synchronized across processes. This no...
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.managers.SyncManager
Array(typecode, sequence) Create an array and return a proxy for it.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.managers.SyncManager.Array
Barrier(parties[, action[, timeout]]) Create a shared threading.Barrier object and return a proxy for it. New in version 3.3.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.managers.SyncManager.Barrier
BoundedSemaphore([value]) Create a shared threading.BoundedSemaphore object and return a proxy for it.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.managers.SyncManager.BoundedSemaphore
Condition([lock]) Create a shared threading.Condition object and return a proxy for it. If lock is supplied then it should be a proxy for a threading.Lock or threading.RLock object. Changed in version 3.3: The wait_for() method was added.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.managers.SyncManager.Condition
dict() dict(mapping) dict(sequence) Create a shared dict object and return a proxy for it.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.managers.SyncManager.dict
Event() Create a shared threading.Event object and return a proxy for it.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.managers.SyncManager.Event
list() list(sequence) Create a shared list object and return a proxy for it.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.managers.SyncManager.list
Lock() Create a shared threading.Lock object and return a proxy for it.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.managers.SyncManager.Lock
Namespace() Create a shared Namespace object and return a proxy for it.
python.library.multiprocessing#multiprocessing.managers.SyncManager.Namespace