Find This Module

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:00:07 +0000, gregpinero at gmail.com wrote:

> I'm looking at the source for the module sre_compile.py and it does
> this import:
> 
> import _sre
> 
> But I can't find a file related to _sre anywhere.  Where is it?  And
> more generally, how does one find the location of a built in module?

It's built into the interpreter executable.

In [85]: import _sre

In [86]: _sre
Out[86]: <module '_sre' (built-in)>

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch