On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 6:08 AM, candide <cand...@free.invalid> wrote: > I was wondering if all the standard module are implemented in C. For > instance, I can't find a C implementation for the minidom xml parser under > Python 2.6.
As was already said, no; a significant portion if not the majority of the std lib is written in pure Python, not C. You can usually determine how a module is implemented by looking at the file extension of the module's __file__ attribute. For example: $ python Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Oct 12 2010, 14:31:05) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5664)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import cPickle # obviously in C >>> cPickle.__file__ '/sw/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/cPickle.so' >>> import pickle # pure Python version >>> pickle.__file__ '/sw/lib/python2.6/pickle.pyc' Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
