How to read source code of python?

[Thomas Jollans]

On 06/10/2010 07:25 AM, Qijing Li wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
> I'm trying to understand python language deeply and  use it efficiently.
> For example: How the operator "in" works on list? the running time is
> be O(n)?  if my list is sorted, what the running time would be?

There is excellent documentation of the language and standard library at
http://docs.python.org/ .

Otherwise, just download the Python source code! You know it's free. I
think it's pretty well organised, though I haven't worked with it a lot
yet myself. Just poke around!

Have fun,
Thomas

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> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:59 PM, geremy condra <debatem1 at gmail.com
> <mailto:debatem1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Leon <qjing.li
>     <http://qjing.li>@gmail.com <http://gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > Hi, there,
>     > I'm trying to read the source code of python.
>     > I read around, and am kind of lost, so where to start?
>     >
>     > Any comments are welcomed, thanks in advance.
> 
>     Are you trying to find out more about python-the-language,
>     or the interpreter, or the stdlib, or trying to make some
>     specific change, or...?
> 
>     Geremy Condra
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