[Python-Dev] buildin vs. shared modules

[Martin v. Löwis]

"Shane Holloway (IEEE)" <shane.holloway at ieee.org> writes:

> > Don't know what these do, so I cannot really comment:
> >   _symtable parser unicodedata
> 
> Neither do I.  Although unicodedata is fairly big.

As I tried to explain: the size of the library is relatively
irrelevant, atleast for performance (it might matter for py2exe-style
standalone binary production). What matters (as Guido explains) is
whether you need additional libraries to download or link with, which
is not the case for either of these modules.

Regards,
Martin