在shell中运行python的脚本

Question

I am running python on Linux. I want to know the script which runs the python interpreter.

Meaning, Whenever i run the command python on a linux shell, a Python prompts opens and get input from keyboard and take those inputs to the underlying python interpreter.I want to know which shellscript (or python script) does this?. I want to know the location of it.

Answer 1

It's not a python script you can simply get and modify as any .py file. In order to play around with interactive interpretter you will have to download the python sources and go through them, as it's a build-in part of it (for performance sake).

You can read up the details on http://docs.python.org/devguide/

Answer 2

The answer to your question as asked is None !

The Linux default python prompt is part of the python interpreter and is a binary file not a python script or shell script. The path to the binary can be found by the Linux command:

which python