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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:41:44 -0500

Writing stuff back to .zip files is totally the wrong approach.
I don't care about having .so files inside packages in zipfiles.
I'm not sure I care about having .so files inside packages on the filesystem; they are useful in Zope, but for very hackish reasons.
If the zip file has the .py file but no .pyc or the wrong .pyc, tant pis. Let it be slower. (But if it has the .pyo, use that.)

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