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<h1>Modules command-line interface (CLI)<a class="headerlink" href="#modules-command-line-interface-cli" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
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<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="base64.html#module-base64" title="base64: RFC 4648: Base16, Base32, Base64 Data Encodings; Base85 and Ascii85"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">base64</span></code></a></p></li>
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<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="code.html#module-code" title="code: Facilities to implement read-eval-print loops."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">code</span></code></a></p></li>
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<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="profile.html#module-cProfile" title="cProfile"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cProfile</span></code></a>: see <a class="reference internal" href="profile.html#profile-cli"><span class="std std-ref">profile</span></a></p></li>
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<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="difflib.html#difflib-interface"><span class="std std-ref">difflib</span></a></p></li>
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<li><p><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">encodings.rot_13</span></code></p></li>
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<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="ensurepip.html#module-ensurepip" title="ensurepip: Bootstrapping the "pip" installer into an existing Python installation or virtual environment."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ensurepip</span></code></a></p></li>
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<li><p><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">idlelib</span></code></p></li>
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<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="profile.html#module-pstats" title="pstats: Statistics object for use with the profiler."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pstats</span></code></a></p></li>
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<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="py_compile.html#py-compile-cli"><span class="std std-ref">py_compile</span></a></p></li>
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<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="pyclbr.html#module-pyclbr" title="pyclbr: Supports information extraction for a Python module browser."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pyclbr</span></code></a></p></li>
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<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="pydoc.html#module-pydoc" title="pydoc: Documentation generator and online help system."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pydoc</span></code></a></p></li>
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<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="runpy.html#module-runpy" title="runpy: Locate and run Python modules without importing them first."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">runpy</span></code></a></p></li>
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<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="tabnanny.html#module-tabnanny" title="tabnanny: Tool for detecting white space related problems in Python source files in a directory tree."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tabnanny</span></code></a></p></li>
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<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="turtle.html#module-turtledemo" title="turtledemo: A viewer for example turtle scripts"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">turtledemo</span></code></a></p></li>
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