Getting started with the Python source

[renguy]

Thank you for your response. I guess I was looking for a more specific
answer. I have the source and I have been looking around at the various
code. I think my question is, what is the name of the toplevel source
code file of C code for the Python interpreter, and what is the name of
the toplevel source code file for IDLE? Does that make sense?

Thanks again.

dakman at gmail.com wrote:
> Actually IDLE was written purley in python, you can find the sources to
> it in...
>
> UNIX: /usr/lib/python<version>/idlelib
> Windows: C:\Python<version>\Lib\idlelib
>
> If you are looking to modifly mostly just the IDE I would start there,
> however if you are more interesting in modifying python Itself just
> look around in the sources, it should be relativley easy to find.
>
> renguy wrote:
> > I am interested in making some changes and additions to the Python
> > environment (Python and IDLE). I have the source code and can build the
> > source, but what I want to know is what are the "main" functions or
> > source code for Python and IDLE. Specifically I would like to know what
> > in Python and IDLE would be analogous to void main () in a standard C
> > program. This will help me to work out the structure of the interpreter
> > and the environment. Your help will be greatly appreciated. The changes
> > I wish to make are for investigating the modification of the Python
> > environment for novice programmers.