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class (mx.DateTime module)      absdate attribute      absdays attribute      abstime attribute      absvalues method      COMDate method      date attribute      day attribute      day_of_week attribute      day_of_year attribute      dst attribute      gmticks method      gmtime method      gmtoffset method      hour attribute      iso_week attribute      localtime method      minute attribute      month attribute      second attribute      strftime method      ticks method      tuple method      year attribute  DateTime class (xmlrpclib module)  DateTime function (mx.DateTime module)  DateTimeDelta class (mx.DateTime module)      absvalues method      attributes      DateTimeDelta function      DateTimeDeltaFrom function      DateTimeDeltaFromSeconds function      day attribute      days attribute      hour attribute      hours attribute      methods      minute attributes      minutes attribute      second attribute      seconds attribute      strftime method      TimeDelta function      TimeDeltaFrom function      TimeFromTicks function      tuple method  DateTimeDelta function (DateTimeDelta class)  DateTimeDeltaFrom function (DateTimeDelta class)  DateTimeDeltaFromSeconds function (DateTimeDelta class)  DateTimeFrom function (mx.DateTime module)  DateTimeFromAbsDays function (mx.DateTime module)  DateTimeFromCOMDays function (mx.DateTime module)  day attribute     DateTime class      DateTimeDelta class  day_of_week attribute (DateTime class)  day_of_year attribute (DateTime class)  Daylight Saving Time (DST)  days attribute (DateTimeDelta class)  DB2 module  DBAPI 2.0 (Database API 2.0)  2nd  [See also bsddb module][See also bsddb module]3rd      -compliant modules  2nd      connect function      connection object      Cursor object      Gadfly      type-description attributes  DBAPI 3.0  dbhash module      open function  dbm library  dbm module  2nd  DBM modules      anydbm module      bsddb module      dbm/gdbm/dbhash modules      dumbdbm module      whichdb module  DCOracle2 module  Debian GNU/Linux, installing Python  __debug__ variable (built-in)  debugging  2nd  3rd      CGI scripts  2nd      HTML      in IDLE      inspect module      pdb module      print statement and      race conditions      traceback module      warnings module  December attribute (mx.DateTime module)  decimal literals  2nd  decode function     base64 module      quopri module      Utils module      uu module  decodestring function     base64 module      quopri module  decompress function (zlib module)  deepcopy function (copy module)  def statement  2nd  3rd  default function (cmd module)  default search path, designating  define_macros argument (distutils Extension class)  defining     functions in class body      metaclasses  defpath attribute (os module)  deiconify method (Toplevel object)  __del__ special method  del statements  2nd      dictionaries  delattr function (built-in)  __delattr__ special method  2nd  delch method (Window object)  dele method (POP3 object)  delete method     Canvas object      Entry object      FTP object      Listbox object      Menu object      Text object  deleteln method (Window object)  deleting attributes  delimiters, list of  delitem method (operator module)  __delitem__ special method  delslice method (operator module)  denial-of-service attacks  [See security, denial-of-service attacks] DeprecationWarning class  descendants  description argument (distutils setup function)  description attribute (Cursor object)  deselect method     Checkbutton object      Radiobutton object  destructor  [See __del__ special method] development environments      text editors with Python support  diagonal function (Numeric module)  __dict__ attribute     module object      class object  dict type (built-in)  2nd  dictionaries      dictionary items      dictionary keys      exec statement and      indexing      listing loaded module names      methods      operations on      optimizing operations on      representing current local namespace  dictionary object (dict type)     clear method      copy method      get method      has_key method      items method      iteritems method      iterkeys method      itervalues method      keys method      popitem method      setdefault method      update method      values method  DictionaryType attribute (types module)  DictType attribute (types module)  digits attribute (string module)  dir function (built-in)  dircmp function (filecmp module)  directory paths     absolute, retrieving name of      base name of, retrieving      comparing      creating      current working directory         returning path of          setting      distribution utilities      information about, retrieving      mount points      normalized names, retrieving      parent directory      removing  2nd      renaming      separator between lists of      setting time on      specifying when module loading      symbolic links to  dirname function (os.path module)  disable command (pdb module)  disable function (gc module)  2nd  dispatcher class (asyncore module)      create_socket method      handle_accept method      handle_close method      handle_connect method      handle_read method      handle_write method  displayhook function (sys module)  disposition attribute (FieldStorage object)  disposition_options attribute (FieldStorage object)  distributed computing  distribution root directory      setup.py script  distribution utilities  [See distutils] distributions      root directory of  distutils (distribution utilities)  2nd      creating prebuilt distributions      distribution contents      distribution root directory      distutils module, Extensions class      distutils module, setup function      distutils package      MANIFEST files      providing metadata about distribution      setup.cfg file      setup.py script  div method (operator module)  __div__ special method  division  divmod function (built-in)  2nd  __divmod__ special method  .dll files  DLLs (dynamic load libraries)      interoperability of Python release and debugging builds  DNS (Domain Name System)  do_help function (cmd module)  do_tag method     HTMLParser object      sgmllib module  __doc__ attribute     class object      module object  docstrings  2nd  3rd  doctest module  doctype attribute (Document object)  Document class (minidom module)  2nd      createComment method      createElement method      createTextNode method      doctype attribute      DocumentElement attribute      getElementById method      getElementsByTagName method      getElementsByTagNameNS method      methods  Document Object Model  [See DOM, parsing XML] Document Type Definition (DTD)  documentation      embedding/extending Python  documentation strings  [See docstrings]2nd  [See docstrings] documentElement attribute (Document object)  dollar sign ($)     MULTILINE attribute      regular expressions  DOM (Document Object Model), parsing XML  2nd  [See also minidom module]     minidom module      pulldom module      xml.dom package  Domain Name System (DNS)  DOMEventStream class (pulldom module)  DOMException class (xml.dom package)  DOTALL attribute (re module)  double quote ("), string literals  down command (pdb module)  DST (Daylight Saving Time)  dst attribute (DateTime class)  DTD (Document Type Definition)  dumbdbm module      open function  DumbWriter class (formatter module)  dump/dumps functions     marshal module      pickle/cPickle modules  dump_address_pair function (Utils module)  dup/dup2 functions (os module)  dynamic execution  dynamic load libraries  [See DLLs]