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From: Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com>
Subject: Re: Use the Source Luke
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:07:17 -0800
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On 1/31/2011 12:35 PM Raymond Hettinger said...
> That would explain why fewer people look at the C source code.
>
> However, even the parts of the standard library written in pure Python
> don't seem to be getting read anymore, so I'm still inclined to
> attribute the issue to 1) inconvenient placement of source code,
> 2) a largish code base, and 3) possibly a cultural shift.
>

ISTM that around the time the list forked off py-dev fewer people 
remained that were singing 'use the source'. . .

Emile