Can not find _socket module

Question

In the Python library file Python34/Lib/socket.py the _socket module is imported:

import _socket
from _socket import *

but I couldn't find _socket anywhere in the library.

Could anybody explain what is _socket?

Answer 1

_socket is a shared library that provides the C implementation of much of socket.py. (Indeed, the first line of socket.py says the module is a wrapper around _socket.) It isn't meant to be used directly.