Find This Module

[gregpinero@gmail.com]

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?

Thanks,

Greg

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

Re: Find This Module

On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:00:07 +0000, gregpinero@gmai l.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

[Peter Otten]

Re: Find This Module

gregpinero@gmai l.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?

If you want the source code, have a look at

http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Modules/_sre.c?rev=52147&view=markup

And more generally, how does one find the location of a built in module?

For the source of modules written in C, built in or not, you have to look in
the source distribution.

Peter