On 2017-05-16, Deborah Swanson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, my naive opinion is that they should be. But it was just one
> message back that I learned some Python built-in modules are at least
> partially written in C.
Many of the are, because there aren't any platforms that provide a
native Python API for doing things like network and file I/O,
interfacing with GUI layers, etc. And Python itself (the most widely
used implementation) is also written in C.
> I didn't know that, nor did I know or suspect that installation
> files for official Python releases likely contained C compilers.
What? That's news to me!
What "official python release" contains a C compiler?
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