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 <span id="id1"></span><h1>Utilities</h1> <p>The functions in this chapter perform various utility tasks, ranging from helping C code be more portable across platforms, using Python modules from C, and parsing function arguments and constructing Python values from C values.</p>  <ul> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="sys">Operating System Utilities</a></li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="sys#system-functions">System Functions</a></li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="sys#process-control">Process Control</a></li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="import">Importing Modules</a></li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="marshal">Data marshalling support</a></li> <li class="toctree-l1">
<a class="reference internal" href="arg">Parsing arguments and building values</a><ul> <li class="toctree-l2">
<a class="reference internal" href="arg#parsing-arguments">Parsing arguments</a><ul> <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="arg#strings-and-buffers">Strings and buffers</a></li> <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="arg#numbers">Numbers</a></li> <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="arg#other-objects">Other objects</a></li> <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="arg#api-functions">API Functions</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="arg#building-values">Building values</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="conversion">String conversion and formatting</a></li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="reflection">Reflection</a></li> <li class="toctree-l1">
<a class="reference internal" href="codec">Codec registry and support functions</a><ul> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="codec#codec-lookup-api">Codec lookup API</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="codec#registry-api-for-unicode-encoding-error-handlers">Registry API for Unicode encoding error handlers</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="perfmaps">Support for Perf Maps</a></li> </ul>  <div class="_attribution">
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