Can I get python to print the source code for __builtins__
directly?
OR (more preferably):
What is the pathname of the source code for __builtins__
?
I at least know the following things:
__builtins__
is a module, by typingtype(__builtins__)
.I have tried the best-answer-suggestions to a more general case of this SO question: "Finding the source code for built-in Python functions?". But no luck:
print inspect.getdoc(__builtins__)
just gives me a description.inspect.getfile(__builtins__)
just gives me an error:TypeError: <module '__builtin__' (built-in)> is a built-in module
https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/c6880edaf6f3/# does not seem to contain an entry for
__builtins__
. I've tried "site:" search and browsed several of the directories but gave up after a few.