John Dean wrote: > That particular file doesn't include the implementation files for the core > modules. The platform specific directories only include two or three files. > Only the Mac directory contains any C code files
$ date -u Mon Feb 6 11:14:15 UTC 2006 $ wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.2/Python-2.4.2.tgz ... Resolving www.python.org... done. Connecting to www.python.org[82.94.237.218]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 9,239,975 [application/x-tar] ... 12:14:42 (477.76 KB/s) - `Python-2.4.2.tgz' saved [9239975/9239975] $ tar tvfz Python-2.4.2.tgz | grep .c$ | wc 321 1926 28606 $ tar tvfz Python-2.4.2.tgz | grep .c$ | more -rw-r--r-- anthony/anthony 1591 2001-11-17 07:30:20 Python-2.4.2/Demo/embed/demo.c -rw-r--r-- anthony/anthony 255 2001-02-20 21:54:28 Python-2.4.2/Demo/embed/importexc.c ... -rw-r--r-- anthony/anthony 43071 2003-11-20 14:30:55 Python-2.4.2/Mac/Modules/ae/_AEmodule.c -rw-r--r-- anthony/anthony 3680 2003-11-20 14:30:55 Python-2.4.2/Mac/Modules/ah/_AHmodule.c ... -rw-r--r-- anthony/anthony 5531 2004-08-02 15:24:54 Python-2.4.2/Modules/_bisectmodule.c -rw-r--r-- anthony/anthony 142654 2004-12-16 10:48:37 Python-2.4.2/Modules/_bsddb.c ... -rw-r--r-- anthony/anthony 47941 2005-08-21 13:09:58 Python-2.4.2/Objects/abstract.c -rw-r--r-- anthony/anthony 4895 2003-04-19 20:15:10 Python-2.4.2/Objects/boolobject.c ... -rw-r--r-- anthony/anthony 447 2004-09-08 17:56:39 Python-2.4.2/PC/WinMain.c -rw-r--r-- anthony/anthony 13393 2004-11-07 15:30:34 Python-2.4.2/PC/_subprocess.c ... -rw-r--r-- anthony/anthony 815 2001-07-26 15:41:06 Python-2.4.2/Python/atof.c -rw-r--r-- anthony/anthony 59696 2005-09-15 12:46:18 Python-2.4.2/Python/bltinmodule.c ... (etc) sounds like your gzip/tar utilities are broken. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list