> For my own interest, I want understand the run time behavior of python > and what details causes it much slower. Although people choose python > for its programming efficiency, but sometimes the runtime still > matters. This is an important aspect of the language. I'm wondering > this is not even documented. Why everybody has to go to the source > code to understand it?
There are two answers to this question: a) Because the source is the most precise and most complete way of documenting it. Any higher-level documentation would necessarily be incomplete. b) Because nobody has contributed documentation. The two causes correlate: because writing documentation of VM internals takes a lot of effort and is of questionable use, nobody has written any. > Are you sure that there is no document that describes how python is > working internally (including exceptions)? Such documents certainly exist, but not as part of the Python distribution. See http://wiki.python.org/moin/CPythonVmInternals for one such document. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
