python under the hood

[A.T.Hofkamp]

On 2006-10-20, tpochep at mail.ru <tpochep at mail.ru> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Is there any good information about python's internals and semantic? I
> mean "under the hood".

Not exactly 'under the hood', but very close is the Python/C API.
You can learn a great deal by reading the Extending&Embedding manual as well as
the Python/C API reference manual.

> Unfortynatly, I'm too lazy to read python's source code :) (and I
> guess, it's not very easy :) )

After the above, some parts should be familiar. The functions in the Python/C
API are also being used inside Python.

I also found the source code pretty understandable, although I read only a
small part of it.

Albert