[Python-Dev] Safely importing zip files with C extensions (original) (raw)

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc amauryfa at gmail.com
Wed Mar 27 21:13:27 CET 2013


2013/3/27 Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk>

When you mount a wheel, its absolute path name is added to sys.path, allowing the Python code in it to be imported.

Better: just put the wheel path to sys.path sys.path.append('/tmp/simplejson-3.1.2-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl') and let a sys.path_hook entry do the job.

Such a WheelImporter could even inherit from zipimporter, plus the magic required for C extensions.

It avoids the mount/nomount methods, only the usual sys.path operations are necessary from the user.

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