James Yu wrote: > I am trying to learn the way Python invokes system or primitive calls. > I tried to locate the function in Python's source that handles such > requests, but I found it's like picking a needle in ocean.
what "system or primitive calls"? Python's OS-level modules usually rely on the nderlying C runtime libraries... (e.g. os.rename() calls rename() which does what- ever it needs to do to implement rename() semantics according to POSIX, etc.) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list