Hi

I am learning python and wanted to view the source files of a few programs to learn how they were getting the job done. I am on PCLOS 07 (Mandriva Base) and thought the files would be in the usr/src or usr/share directories however I cannot locate them.

Am I missing something ? Where Should I be looking.

Cheers

Um, if it's python programs whose source you want to see, they'd be in /usr/bin or wherever - or probably /usr/lib for most of the python distribution, itself. If you want to see C (or other source code for binaries), you'd download the source tarball from upstream or use the 'source rpm's of your distro, I believe. Use the package management tools to find where the latter end up. But /usr/src hardly ever holds anything but the kernel source on most Linux distros and sometimes not even that. /usr/share would be for machine-independent data files and documentation, for the most part.

Thanks yes starting with Python first, C or C++ will be second. All the tutorials just say "Look at the Source" but with no explanation how.

In the /usr/lib I see a lot of files of the "file.so", in /usr/bin I have found most of it, thanks for the tip. Also have found that KDE apps source has a good online browsing facility http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started and also this site called Cross Referencing linux http://lxr.linux.no/blurb.html.