On 25/04/2007 12:31 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> On 25/04/2007 9:32 AM, Dustan wrote:
>>> I've been paging through the source code for various C modules in
>>> python, and wanted to find the source of some of the builtin
>>> functions.
You snipped the 2nd sentence of what the OP wrote:
""" I searched through the Modules, Objects, Python, and Parser
folder, searched docs.python.org, searched the archived messages of
this group, searched the web, and got absolutely nowhere in finding a
__builtin__.c, or anything that contains the builtin source code. """
He's looking through the *SOURCE* distribution.
>> What's the 2nd file (in alphabetical order) in the Python folder?
>
> What is "the Python folder"?
>
> Assuming you mean "the folder for the Python standard library
> modules":
Wrong assumption. You're expecting the source for builtin functions to
be written in Python?
>
> $ ls -1 /usr/lib/python2.4/ | head -n 10
> aifc.py
[snip]
> atexit.pyc
>
> There are no files in that folder with 'builtin' in their name.
And when you get to <source_distribution>/Python, you'll find that
that's still the case :-)
> I'm
> don't know what point you're driving at.
Astonishment that the OP missed it in his serial scan of file names,
even though the name wouldn't be picked up by glob.glob('*builtin*')
BTW there's this ancient gadget called 'grep' that can be used to find
patterns in files, like 'nameofabuiltinfunction('; any semi-usable
editor or IDE would have similar functionality.
Cheers,
John
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