Question on Global Modules

Steve Holden sholden at holdenweb.com
Tue Oct 1 12:13:06 EDT 2002


"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shalehperry at attbi.com> wrote ...
> > On Tuesday 01 October 2002 06:41, Allan Waddington wrote:
> > Greetings and HELP from a Newbie:
> >
> > Where do I find the os.path, cString and StringIO global module?  I
> > didn't find them in the lib directory.
> >
>
> They are implemented in C, not python.  Look in the python source for
their
> source.

>
Unlike cStringIO, StringIO is a pure Python library. If you can't find
StringIO.py in the same place as (for example) mtmllib.py and Cookie.py then
there's something wrong with your installation (unless it's so old those
libraries weren't implemented :-)

regards
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