19.2 Miscellaneous useful utilities

Some of these are very old and/or not very robust; marked with ``hmm.''

dircmp
-- Class to build directory diff tools on (may become a demo or tool). Deprecated since release 1.6. The filecmp module will replace dircmp.

bdb
-- A generic Python debugger base class (used by pdb)

ihooks
-- Import hook support (for rexec; may become obsolete)

tzparse
-- Parse a timezone specification (unfinished; may disappear in the future)


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