[XML-SIG] understanding the sources. wher to start?

[Uche Ogbuji]

> info@mjais.de writes:
> 
> > Can you give me some advice where to start when I want to understand the
> > sources.
> 
> I recommend you pick an API which you already know from the
> application level (e.g. SAX, DOM, XPath, xmlproc, ...). For that piece
> of software, you take some example that uses this API. For that
> example, you
> 
> 1. find out what modules it uses, by printing sys.modules.keys() after
>    all imports are done, and
> 2. put strategic print statements into those modules, to find out who
>    calls what.

3.  Help those who follow you by writing up your findings.


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