[Python-Dev] PEP 355 status (original) (raw)

stephen at xemacs.org stephen at xemacs.org
Wed Oct 25 07:33:22 CEST 2006

Talin writes:

(one additional postscript - One thing I would be interested in is an approach that unifies file paths and URLs so that there is a consistent locator scheme for any resource, whether they be in a filesystem, on a web server, or stored in a zip file.)

+1

But doesn't file:/// do that for files, and couldn't we do something like zipfile:///nantoka.zip#foo/bar/baz.txt? Of course, we'd want to do ziphttp://your.server.net/kantoka.zip#foo/bar/baz.txt, too. That way leads to madness....

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