Python V2.4.2 source code

[Fredrik Lundh]

John Dean wrote:

> That particular file doesn't include the implementation files for the core
> modules. The platform specific directories only include two or three files.
> Only the Mac directory contains any C code files

$ date -u
Mon Feb  6 11:14:15 UTC 2006
$ wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.2/Python-2.4.2.tgz
...
Resolving www.python.org... done.
Connecting to www.python.org[82.94.237.218]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 9,239,975 [application/x-tar]
...
12:14:42 (477.76 KB/s) - `Python-2.4.2.tgz' saved [9239975/9239975]

$ tar tvfz Python-2.4.2.tgz | grep .c$ | wc
    321    1926   28606
$ tar tvfz Python-2.4.2.tgz | grep .c$ | more
-rw-r--r-- anthony/anthony  1591 2001-11-17 07:30:20 Python-2.4.2/Demo/embed/demo.c
-rw-r--r-- anthony/anthony   255 2001-02-20 21:54:28 Python-2.4.2/Demo/embed/importexc.c
...
-rw-r--r-- anthony/anthony  43071 2003-11-20 14:30:55 Python-2.4.2/Mac/Modules/ae/_AEmodule.c
-rw-r--r-- anthony/anthony   3680 2003-11-20 14:30:55 Python-2.4.2/Mac/Modules/ah/_AHmodule.c
...
-rw-r--r-- anthony/anthony   5531 2004-08-02 15:24:54 Python-2.4.2/Modules/_bisectmodule.c
-rw-r--r-- anthony/anthony 142654 2004-12-16 10:48:37 Python-2.4.2/Modules/_bsddb.c
...
-rw-r--r-- anthony/anthony  47941 2005-08-21 13:09:58 Python-2.4.2/Objects/abstract.c
-rw-r--r-- anthony/anthony   4895 2003-04-19 20:15:10 Python-2.4.2/Objects/boolobject.c
...
-rw-r--r-- anthony/anthony    447 2004-09-08 17:56:39 Python-2.4.2/PC/WinMain.c
-rw-r--r-- anthony/anthony  13393 2004-11-07 15:30:34 Python-2.4.2/PC/_subprocess.c
...
-rw-r--r-- anthony/anthony    815 2001-07-26 15:41:06 Python-2.4.2/Python/atof.c
-rw-r--r-- anthony/anthony  59696 2005-09-15 12:46:18 Python-2.4.2/Python/bltinmodule.c
... (etc)

sounds like your gzip/tar utilities are broken.

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