[Python-Dev] magic in setuptools (Was: setuptools in the stdlib) (original) (raw)
Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Apr 21 10:57:59 CEST 2006
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Martin v. Löwis wrote:
Some libraries (not necessarily in Python) have gone the path of providing a "unified" API for all kinds of file stream access, e.g. in KDE, any tool can open files over many protocols, without the storage being mounted locally.
Maybe a compromise would be to provide an extended version of open() that knew about zip files. This could be a stand-alone facility to complement zip importing, and needn't be tied to distutils or setuptools or anything like that. Code which finds things using module file attributes would work exactly the way it does now as long as it used the special open().
-- Greg
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