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

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

Jim J. Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Wed Feb 25 17:02:51 CET 2015

On 24 February 2015 at 18:58, Guido van Rossum wrote:

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

Paul Moore wrote:

One possible source of confusion with copyarchive (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).

Is the difference between create and copy important? e.g., is there anything wrong with

create_archive(old_archive, output=new_archive) working as well as create_archive(directory, archive)?

-jJ

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