i just read this blog about how many objects (types) are loaded for a hello world program in C#.
http://blogs.msdn.com/abhinaba/archive/2008/09/15/how-many-types-are-loaded-for-hello-world.aspx how can you find out how many are loaded for a python program: print 'hello' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list