Eric V. Smith <e...@trueblade.com> added the comment: "built-in modules" has the specific meaning of modules that are compiled in to the python executable. It doesn't mean modules in the standard library.
See https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/sys.html#sys.builtin_module_names Python 3.6.4 (default, Jan 7 2018, 15:53:53) [GCC 6.4.0] on cygwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.builtin_module_names ('_ast', '_codecs', '_collections', '_functools', '_imp', '_io', '_locale', '_operator', '_signal', '_sre', '_stat', '_string', '_symtable', '_thread', '_tracemalloc', '_warnings', '_weakref', 'atexit', 'builtins', 'errno', 'faulthandler', 'gc', 'itertools', 'marshal', 'posix', 'pwd', 'sys', 'time', 'xxsubtype', 'zipimport') ---------- nosy: +eric.smith _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue33340> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
