when is REPLACE_interpreter done?

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

When is REPLACE_interpreter processing done?  It doesn't seem to happen
during the patch phase -- what's the best way to do it earlier, so that
Python (in this case) can be run during the build process?


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb