[Python-Dev] PEP 273: Import Modules from Zip Archives (original) (raw)

James C. Ahlstrom jim@interet.com
Mon, 29 Oct 2001 10:58:10 -0500

Guido van Rossum wrote:

Since obviously the intention of putting the module in the zipfile was that it should be found, I think that failure to decompress should be turned into an immediate error -- the same way as a syntax error gets reported and not turned into a "skip to the next directory in sys.path" effect.

Hmmm, I'm not sure. But it is easy to do.

> I can upload it for inspection, but I don't want it to be a patch > because it is not done yet.

Just say so in the patch. You can upoad anything you want. :-)

OK, I will post the implementation.

JimA