Looking for the mysterious zlib.py* files in Python 2.6.4 (32-bit)for Windows
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From: Mark Lawrence on 4 Mar 2010 21:01 python(a)bdurham.com wrote: > In the process of building an EXE with py2exe, I noticed that > there's no physical zlib files anywhere on my workstation. > > I can import zlib and use this module's features without problem. > But when I query zlib.__file__, I get back an empty string. > > Where does the zlib code live? Is zlib a <built-in> in 2.6? > > The reason I question its '<built-in>' status is that when > analyzing my 2.6 based Py2exe produced executables with > DependencyWalker, I see references to a zlib.pyd file that > doesn't exist anywhere on my system. I wonder if this is > something I should be concerned about? > > Can someone explain this mystery to me? > > Thank you, > Malcolm c:\Users\Mark>python Python 2.6.4 (r264:75708, Oct 26 2009, 08:23:19) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import zlib >>> help(zlib) Help on built-in module zlib: NAME zlib FILE (built-in) [snip the rest of the help output] IIRC a pyd file is really a DLL, but for a built-in its included into in this case python26.dll. HTH. Mark Lawrence |