Where's the source code for __builtin__?

John Machin sjmachin at lexicon.net
Tue Apr 24 23:50:53 EDT 2007


On 25/04/2007 1:17 PM, Steven Bethard wrote:
> Ben Finney wrote:
>> John Machin <sjmachin at lexicon.net> writes:
>>> On 25/04/2007 9:32 AM, Dustan wrote:
>>>> I've been paging through the source code for various C modules in
>>>> python, and wanted to find the source of some of the builtin
>>>> functions.
>>> What's the 2nd file (in alphabetical order) in the Python folder?
>>
>> What is "the Python folder"?
>>
>> Assuming you mean "the folder for the Python standard library
>> modules":
> 
> Actually, he meant the folder named 'Python' in the checkout from the 
> repository:
> 
> C:\...\python\2.X>dir Python
> 
>  Directory of C:\...\python\2.X\Python
> 
> 03/21/2007  12:13 PM    <DIR>          .
> 03/21/2007  12:13 PM    <DIR>          ..
> 02/17/2007  03:11 PM               697 asdl.c
> 03/19/2007  04:31 PM           103,444 ast.c
> 02/17/2007  03:11 PM               865 atof.c
> 03/19/2007  04:31 PM            66,286 bltinmodule.c
> 
> Probably 'bltinmodule.c' is a good place to start.
> 

It *was* the 2nd file in the 2.4.3 source I happened to have lying 
around on my hard drive :-)



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