[Python-Dev] Zipping the standard library. (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat Mar 10 23:53:10 CET 2012

On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:49:24 -0800 Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org> wrote:

Also, depending on what else you want to put in the zipfile, you may have to be aware of zipimports limited implementation of zipfiles that involve various 32k-filecount and 2Gb-filesize limits. (And in case you're wondering, yes, we are doing this with Python 2.7 at Google to save space. And yes, hitting the 2Gb limit is quite possible for us.)

Have you investigated filesystems with built-in compression? :)

Also, at that point the question becomes if we need a transparent interface for opening module sourcefiles or arbitrary files living in packages, that could grab things out of zipfiles (like setuptools has in... one of the modules) -- or other archives of course.

You mean pkg_resources I suppose. The problem is this kind of API is a PITA to use compared to the simple and obvious open()

Regards

Antoine.

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