[Python-Dev] module extension search order (original) (raw)

[Python-Dev] module extension search order - can it be changed?

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:59:21 +1300 (NZDT)

Guido:

Someone: > Speaking entirely from a point of ignorance, why are the source line #s > not shown for frames that are implemented in modules loaded from > zipimport?

Because the code printing the tracebacks doesn't know how to look inside a zip file.

Maybe, if the source file can't be found, it could decompile the bytecode?

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