[Python-Dev] Request for Pronouncement: PEP 441 (original) (raw)

[Python-Dev] Request for Pronouncement: PEP 441 - Improving Python ZIP Application Support

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Wed Feb 25 11:00:58 CET 2015

On 24 February 2015 at 18:58, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

The naming of the functions feels inconsistent -- maybe pack(directory, target) -> createarchive(directory, archive), and setinterpreter() -> copyarchive(archive, newarchive)?

One possible source of confusion with copy_archive (and its command line equivalent "python -m zipapp old.pyz -o new.pyz") is that it isn't technically a copy, as it changes the shebang line (if you omit the interpreter argument it removes the existing shebang). We could change it to copy by default, but (a) that's redundant as a file copy works better, and (b) we'd need to add a method of specifying "remove the shebang" to replace omitting the interpreter arg.

Is this a big enough issue to be worth changing the name of the function and the command line behaviour? I'm inclined to leave it, but mainly on the basis that I feel like I'm getting to the point of over-thinking things...

Paul

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