[Python-Dev] buildin vs. shared modules

[Thomas Heller]

> Thomas Heller wrote:
>
>> If I look at the file sizes in the DLLs directory, it seems that at
>> least unicodedata.pyd, _bsddb.pyd, and _ssl.pyd would significantly grow
>> python23.dll. Is unicodedata.pyd used by the encoding/decoding methods?
>
> No, but it is use by SRE, and by unicode methods (.lower, .upper, ...).

"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:

> I don't see why it matters, though. Adding modules to pythonxy.dll
> does not increase the memory consumption if the modules are not
> used. It might decrease the memory consumption in case the modules are
> used.

So, would a patch be accepted (for 2.4, I assume there is no way for
2.3.3) which made everything builtin except for the following modules:

_testcapi - not used outside the testsuite
_tkinter - needs external stuff anyway
pyexpat - may be replaced by a third party module
_ssl - needs Python to be built

Thomas