
Utilities
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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.

* Operating System Utilities
* System Functions
* Process Control
* Importing Modules
* Data marshalling support
* Parsing arguments and building values
  * Parsing arguments
    * Strings and buffers
    * Numbers
    * Other objects
    * API Functions
  * Building values
* String conversion and formatting
* Reflection
* Codec registry and support functions
  * Codec lookup API
  * Registry API for Unicode encoding error handlers