Python's architecture

[Peter Hansen]

Terry Reedy wrote:
> 
> "Jonas Bengtsson" <jonas.b at home.se> wrote:
> > Python: http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/cs427/PYTHON
> 
> "The Module folder contains all of the core modules required for the
> bare-bones Python system. "
> 
> It contains the modules written in C rather than Python.  Some are
> truly core, other are peripheral and only there because written in C
> for speed.  The os module, written in Python and therefore in the lib
> directory for runtime importation, is much more core than, for
> instance, the md5 module.
> 
> "Since Python is implemented entirely in ANSI C..."
> 
> This, of course, only applies to the 'standard' implementation.

These changes, slightly reworded, now applied to the pages ... 

(One assumes that was the point of making it a wiki. :)