Need information-- Python Architecture

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.1052415434.26584.python-list at python.org>,
kkm25  <kkm25 at drexel.edu> wrote:
>
>I had a question. I need to give an architecture audit on some opensource.
>Me and my teammates have chosen python.

That's a big bite, particularly for a class project.  How well do y'all
already know Python?

>Could someone please tell me, How I should go about the process of deriving 
>it's architecture.
>
>1. Should I be looking at the sourcecode??
>2. If so what part of the source code should be concntrated upon.
>3. How exactly should I go about looking for it's architecture.

Python's architecture is best described as the union of several
architectural building blocks, each of which itself has a moderately
large architecture.  I'd suggest concentrating on one specfic aspect of
Python's architecture (perhaps the syntax or the bytecode engine, though
I'd personally do it on the object model).
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few automatic coercions, etc etc.  But that's one of the things I like
about it."  --Tim Peters on Python, 16 Sep 93